Uwem Akpan Clinches the Commonwealth Prize...

Uwem Akpan, jesuit Nigerian writer wins Commonwealth Prize for Literature (African region) for the Best First Book with his collection Say You're One of Them. Though his first work, it is a collage of intriguing short stories that have random settings from different parts of Africa. It pictures Africa in a stark reality...as it is even through the voices of children.

In the African region, his work was up against Jassey Mackenzie's Random Violence, Megan Voysey-Braig's Till We Can Keep An Animal, Chris Mamewick's Shepherds and Butchers, Janet Bennet's Porcupine and Sue Rabie's Boston Snowplough.

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Say You're One of Them was also been nominated for the Best First Book by Los Angeles Times Book Awards. Look here for more information.