Kendeka Prize for African Literature
Biographies and Photos of the Shortlisted Authors-2022
Scholastica Moraa
Short Story; Chained
Country; Kenya
Scholastica Moraa is a Kenyan author and poet. She is a graduate from Jaramogi University with a Bsc in Actuarial Science. She is the author of a collection of poems titled ‘Beautiful Mess’. One of her short stories ‘6 days to twenty’ was long listed in the Kendeka Prize for African Literature 2021. When she is not writing, she is deeply immersed in a novel or two. She loves travelling, making new friends, learning new languages and overthinking
Adaora Raji
Short Story; Star Boy
Country; Nigeria
Adaora Raji works as a scriptwriter and content producer for Playroom Media, and earned a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Broadcast Journalism from the University of Benin, Nigeria. Her fiction has appeared in Arlington Literary Journal, Midnight and Indigo Literary Journal, the Coachella Review, the Bookends Review and was on the Anthology list of the 2021 Toyin Falola Afrofuturism Prize.
Beverley Ann Abrahams
Short story; Isithunzi
Country: Zimbabwe
Beverley Ann Abrahams is a Zimbabwean teacher of English and Art & Design, a writer and activist against gender-based violence. She has been published in two anthologies of international poets: “Ps:its poetry” (2020) and “Ps: its still poetry” (2021)https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08P1P6MB8She was published in a regional poetry anthology of Sadc female human rights defenders in 2021 : “Mwala: The Rock https://www.dropbox.com/sh/pemiz7j4krzl7sn/AABmQTbYovQhWmQratGhCSh3a?dl=0
She was shortlisted for the Intwasa 2021 short-story competition, and is published in their second anthology of Zimbabwean short stories. Beverley is a single mother to four amazing children.
