The winners of the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa will be announced in an award ceremony in October.
By Hope Ibiale
The organisers of the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa have unveiled its shortlist for the award.
Those on the shortlist include:
- Reine Or by Fatou Sy (Les Case Des Lucioles)
- Female Fear Factory: Unveiling Patriarchy’s Culture of Violence by Pumla Dineo Gqola (Cassava Republic Press)
- Paperless by Buntu Siwisa (Jacana Media)
- When We Were Fireflies by Abubakar Adam Ibrahim (Masobe Books)
- Half Hour Hara by Ugo Anidi (Kachifo)
$20,000 will be awarded to the winner at the CANEX WKND in Algiers this October. The remaining four finalists will each receive a $2,000 cash prize. The judges for the publishing prize include Nigerian author, Dr Wale Okediran, Ivorian writer and essayist, Edwige-Renée Dro, and Egyptian poet, novelist and journalist, Ashraf Aboul-Yazid.
The CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa is a part of the CANEX Book Factory. The CANEX Book Factory is an annual programme of events of the Creative Africa Nexus initiative of the African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank).
It is designed to spotlight and elevate the African book value chain through the prize, a Pan-African writing workshop, and an e-newsletter highlighting African literature. This year’s program will culminate in an award ceremony at the CANEX WKND in Algiers, Algeria, between 16-19 October, 2024.