Welcome to episode 29 of the Writing AfricaPodcast. It’s a blockbuster one as we say goodbye to author, poet, playwright,and academic Ama Ata Aidoo and South African writer, political analyst,journalist, and broadcaster Eusebius McKaiser.

We will be chatting about the prize theKendeka Prize, Arablit Short Story Prize, and the Brooklyn Caribbean LiteraryFestival (BCLF) Short Fiction Story Contest as well as we recommend that youread Caribbean books this Read Caribbean Month.

We have an interview this week. We caughtup with Nobel laureate Abdulrazak Gurnah at the Frankfurt Book Fair in 2022. Apologiesfor the quality of the interview sound. The interview was conducted in a cornerat the Frankfurt Book Fair. Thank you so much Frankfurter Buchmesse for makingthe interview happen.