Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀'s second novel, 'A Spell of Good Things,' exploring class and desire in modern-day Nigeria, was longlisted for #BookerPrize2023.
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has become the first writer to be nominated for the prestigious International Booker Prize as both author and translator. He is also the first nominee to write in an indigenous African language.
Zimbabwean literary giant Tsitsi Dangarembga and Ethiopian-born Maaza Mengiste make the Booker Prize's most diverse shortlist to date.
Zimbabwean literary giant Tsitsi Dangarembga and Ethiopian-born Maaza Mengiste appear in the latest Booker Prize longlist.
The first Black woman to win the literary prize, the BBC causally refers to Bernardine Evaristo as just 'another author'.
The 2019 Booker Prize winner speaks to BBC about her acclaimed book 'Girl, Woman, Other'.
Evaristo is the first black woman to win the prize, but not everyone is pleased that she had to split the award.
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