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Lauri Kubuitsile and Wame Molefhe flew down (or it is up?) together from Botswana to Lagos to participate in the Farafina Workshop. My int...

Congratulations to Jude Dibia whose short story, A Life in Full , written at the Caine workshop in March , provides the title for the 2010...

And so the 2010 Caine shortlist is out. From 115 entries from 13 African countries, the panel of judges have whittled the stories down to 5 ...

Three by the Great Rift Valley in Kenya. Gill Schierhout (left) is so humble one almost forgot that her debut novel 'The Shape of Him...

Here in the middle is Sammy, one of the key officers on the Gallmann Memorial Foundation conservancy . Here he's flanked by Mamle Kabu ...

Pit stop on a game drive: Valerie Tagwira (Zimbabwean writer of 'The Uncertainty of Hope' ) and Kenyan Samuel Munene. A tale told w...

The dreamy landscape of the Caine Workshop... I could not resist capturing these images of participant Vuyo Seripe silhouetted against the...

Many thanks to SB who sent me the following about this year's Caine Prize. . Caine Prize 2008 Winner This year's Caine Prize has be...

. . . . . One of the niggly things about the Caine Prize season at times is that shortlisted stories aren't always widely available. So ...

I ran into Sade Adeniran yesterday and I remembered pictures from this reading of hers in April (Wednesday 16th April) I always meant to po...

Congratulations to Uzor Maxim Uzoatu who's Nigeria's flagbearer for this year's Caine Prize . His story, Cemetery of Life , pub...

Yesterday I anchored the ' In Conversation with Monica Arac de Nyeko' session during the Word Power Book Fair. Above right, the winn...

Monica Arac de Nyeko on her Caine shortlisted story , Jambula Tree ... "Jambula Tree is about loving against a very strong tide - soci...

This week's new reads are all about the Caine. Naturally, since we now know 3 Nigerians are in the running for the 8th Caine Prize for A...