Nigerian boy’s tale in America wins this year’s Caine Prize

By JENIFFER MUCHIRI

Nigeria’s Tope Folarin has won the 2013 Caine Prize for African Writing with his short story Miracle, which came top from the shortlist of Elnathan John’s Bayan Layi, Pede Hollist’s Foreign Aid, Abubakar Adam Ibrahim’s The Whispering Trees, and Chinelo Okparanta’s America. Apart from Pede Hollist, from Sierra Leone, the rest are Nigerians.