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Literary prizes can spur African fiction

Ferdinand Mwongela

Canadian short story writer Alice Munro took the Man Booker International Prize crown in May ahead of other literary greats like Trinidad’s VS Naipul and Kenya’s Ngugi wa Thiong’o. Had Ngugi won the prize it would have been a successive win for African writers after Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe won the biennial literary prize in 2007.

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