2023 Kendeka Prize for African Literature was featured on People Daily’s Books and Leisure
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2023 Winners
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2023 Shortlisted Writers Biographies
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Press Release – Shortlist, 2023
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2023 Shortlisted Writers
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Why Kendeka Prize is important to writers
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Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2023 Long List Qualifiers
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Judges for the Kendeka Prize for African Literature, 2023 are announced today, 15th April, 2023
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The judges for the Kendeka Prize for African Literature, 2023, are unveiled today. The chair of the panel is novelist Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu, a Zambian based in Lusaka. Joining the panel, is Richard Ali, a lawyer, novelist and poet based in Abuja, Nigeria and Pasomi Mucha, a novelist and a teacher based in Nairobi, Kenya The […]
About the 2023 Judges
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The judges for the Kendeka Prize for African Literature, 2023, are unveiled today. The chair of the panel is novelist Natasha Omokhodion-Kalulu, a Zambian based in Lusaka. Joining the panel, is Richard Ali, a lawyer, novelist and poet based in Abuja, Nigeria and Pasomi Mucha, a novelist and a teacher based in Nairobi, Kenya About […]
Press Release : Call for Submissions, 2023
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Kendeka Prize for African Literature is accepting entries from 1st of February, 2023 to 15th May, 2023 for its’ 2023 edition. The entry is free. The Prize will be awarded for the best unpublished short story either in fiction or creative non-fiction. The first prize will be Kshs.100,000, while the 2nd and the 3rd Prize […]