Prize Season

Chinua Achebe is one of 15 authors up for this year's International Booker, and Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a hot contender on the Broadband Orange shortlist - her second time - with her second novel, Half of a Yellow Sun (you can vote for the Readers' Award here).

And we're not even talking the Caine Prize (shortlist announced next month) yet! (on second thoughts, you might want to see this post on UKNaija...)

• Also, A Bull Man's Story, by Nigerian Abubakar Adam Ibrahim - is the winning play of the BBC World Service's African Performance Play Writing competition 2007.

Update 2 May - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie will be giving a reading & a talk @ Drexel University's Living Arts Lounge, Creese Student Union Complex (32nd & Chestnut Streets), Philadelphia - @ 2pm on Friday 4th May.