"What I want to do is to tell a good story, that is all" - Caine Prize winner Okwiri Oduor

From AfriPOP! Thu Sep 18 2014, 05:16:06

Kenya's Okwiri Oduor has won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing for her short story entitled ''My Father's Head''. Oduor visited the Book Lounge in Cape Town last week to launch 'The Gonjon Pin and other Stories', an anthology of the 2014 Caine Prize. Daluxolo Moloantoa attended the event and had the opportunity to speak with Odour about what it means to her to win the prize, the inspiration [...]

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