The 2016 shortlist for the African short story award also features writers from Somalia, Zimbabwe and South Africa
The 2013 Caine prize winner Tope Folarin has been shortlisted for the £10,000 award for a second time for his short story Genesis, about a boy coming to terms with his mother’s abuse.
The Nigerian author, who won the Caine prize for African writing in 2013 and was named as one of the most promising African writers under 39 in 2014, is one of five writers shortlisted for this year’s award. The prize is for the best short story by an African writer written in English, and counts among its patrons the African winners of the Nobel prize for literature, Wole Soyinka and JM Coetzee.
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