Tag: Caine Prize
Lamu Squat
March 2011They fix passage across the channel for three hundred shillings; Meroe haggles. The motorboats have long since skimmed into the dusk, the passengers smiling and laughing at the platitudes of the Lamuans.
Guernica writer E.C. Osondu wins the ‘African Booker’
July 2009E.C. Osondu’s story in Guernica, Waiting, won the so-called African Booker—the Caine Prize for African Writing.
Waiting
By E.C. Osondu (Winner of the 2009 Caine Prize for African Writing)October 2008
My friends in the camp are known by the inscriptions written on their t-shirts. Acapulco wears a t-shirt with the inscription, Acapulco. Sexy’s t-shirt has the inscription Tell Me I’m Sexy. Paris’s t-shirt says See Paris And Die.
