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Time for Africa to create its own literature award

Tanzania’s Abdulrazak Gurnah wins the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature. [Courtesy: Literary Hub]

The 2021 Nobel Literature Prize was awarded to Tanzania-born Professor Abdulrazak Gurnah. The novelist grew up in Zanzibar and later moved to England as a refugee in 1968, where he began to ply his writing trade at 21 years old.

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