USA Africa Dialogue Series - New Prize For African Literature Announced By Linda .B Glaser

The Mabati-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature – recognizing excellent writing in African languages and encouraging translation from, between and into African languages – was announced Nov. 18 in Nigeria.

The prize is a "major intervention in the struggle for writing in African languages, for their place and visibility in the global sun of literary imagination," said author Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, a board member. "Prizes have generally been used to drown African literature in African languages under a Europhone flood. With the Mabati-Cornell prize the dreams of [poet David] Diop, [novelist and literary historian] A.C. Jordan, Obi Wali [politician and author of 'The Dead End of African Literature'] and others are very much alive. I hope that this prize becomes an invitation for other African languages to do the same and much more."............

Link: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2014/11/new-prize-african-literature-announced

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Chidi Anthony Opara is a Poet and Publisher of PublicInformationProjects

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