Ope Adedeji

The AKO Caine Prize: What’s in for us in 2021?

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In publishing and creative industries, conversations around diversity sprung up among stakeholders — writers, editors, agents, publishers and marketers. Amongst several shocking revelations, a few facts hit hard: books and stories written by African writers are edited and marketed by their white publishers to target a western audience. It also exists as a barrier to entry, so writers conform to stereotypical storytelling patterns that fixate on hard issues like rape, immigration, race, poverty and politics, to be published or win certain prizes.

From Olongo Africa
On July 23, 2021
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'I don’t want to hear that you went to the protest,' she says. 'Inugo?'

From Olongo Africa
On March 15, 2021