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Nigerian Writer Tope Folarin Wins Caine Writing Prize

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This is delightful news. Two Nigerians have won the prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing two years in a row. 

Last year, Nigerian writer, Rotimi Babatunde, won the prize for his story Bombay's Republic - a book about Nigerian soldiers who fought in the Burma campaign during World War II. And this year, another Nigerian has won.

His name is Tope Folarin, a US-based writer. He won the prize for his story - Miracle - a short story set in an evangelical Nigerian church in Texas. 

Tope, who was shortlisted with three other Nigerians and a Sierra Leonean for the prize, received $15,000 at an event that held at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. 


Read the shortlisted stories here!
Tope Folarin (Nigeria) 'Miracle' from Transition, Issue 109 (Bloomington, 2012)
Read Miracle
Pede Hollist (Sierra Leone) 'Foreign Aid' from Journal of Progressive Human Services, Vol. 23.3 (Philadelphia, 2012)
Read Foreign Aid
Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Nigeria) 'The Whispering Trees' from The Whispering Trees, published by Parrésia Publishers (Lagos, 2012)
Read The Whispering Tree
Elnathan John (Nigeria) 'Bayan Layi' from Per Contra, Issue 25 (USA, 2012)
Read Bayan Layi

Chinelo Okparanta (Nigeria) 'America' from Granta, Issue 118 (London, 2012)
Read America

Congrats Tope, we are proud of you!

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