Awards
2009 Commonwealth Writers Prize:
- Regional Winners: More information
- Best Book - Mandla Langa(South Africa) The Lost Colours of the Chameleon. Picador Africa
Best First Book - Uwem Akpan(Nigeria) Say You‘re One of Them. Abacus
- Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction, 2009:
- Chris Abani: More information
- 2009 Caine Prize for Africa:
- E.C. Osondu: More information
- Fonlon-Nichols Award (2009 African Literature Association meeting in Burlington, Vermont:
- Tess Osonye Onwueme: More Information
- Golden Stallion of Yennenga at the 21st Fespaco, Burkina Faso:
- Teza: An Ethiopian film written and directed by haile Gerima and co-produced by Selome Gerima (2008).
- Language: Amharic|English|German 2009
- News articles:
- BBC
New York Times
Europa
- 2009 Noma Award for Publishing:
- Sefi Atta, for Lawless and Other Stories, Farafina (2008)
- See the press release
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