Lusaka Punk and Other Stories

Now in its 16th year, The Caine Prize for African Writing has become an established prize on the literature calendar attracting high-calibre writers from all over the continent. 2015 has been no exception with a record number of eligible entries, 153 stories from 17 African countries. With the short [...]
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Now in its 16th year, The Caine Prize for African Writing has become an established prize on the literature calendar attracting high-calibre writers from all over the continent. 2015 has been no exception with a record number of eligible entries, 153 stories from 17 African countries. With the short-listed (which includes one past winner and two previously shortlisted writers announced in May, the winner will be revealed at an event taking place on Monday 6th July at the Bodleian Library in Oxford. In celebration of the award and to help bring African fiction to a wider audience, New Internationalist is delighted to publish Lusaka Punk and other stories, an anthology that includes not only this years' five short-listed stories but also a further twelve stories that are the result of a Writers' Workshop that took place in Ghana in April.