Married couple Woppa Diallo and Mame Bougouma Diene won for their powerful short story A Soul of Small Places.
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A social chronicler and prolific journalist as well as a fiction writer, Colette provided a highly original woman’s perspective on life in stultifying patriarchal times.
Ama Ata Aidoo recognises the differences between humans and the existence of a history in which some humans are dehumanised.
African literary prizes are slowly becoming more relevant and richer, thanks to writers organising on the continent.
