The Afritondo Short Story Prize is back with its 2024 longlist as judged by the prize’s first three winners Jarred Thompson, Desta Haile, and Howard Meh-Buh Maximus. From a pool of around 400 submissions, the judges have picked their best 15 for the longlist as follows:
The writers on the 2024 longlist are:
- Ema Babikwa (Uganda) — Medium
- Vayunamu Bawa (Nigeria) — Thiero Island
- Cynthia Kistasamy (South Africa) — The Beach House
- Joshua Lubwama (Uganda) — Queen of the Radio
- Sanni Omodolapo (Nigeria) — Your Name is your Covering
- Evalyne Muliwa (Kenya) — He Who Brings The Rain
- mwĩhaki mũragũri (Kenya) — Longing
- Hussani Abdulrahim (Nigeria) — reCaptcha
- Sabah Carrim (Mauritius) — Fading Mehndi
- Khetani Michael Banda (Zimbabwe) — Minus
- Jesutomisin Ipinmoye (Nigeria) — Again?
- B. T. Karuma (Zimbabwe) — Demon of False Hope
- Charmaine Denison-George (Sierra Leone) — Traveling Men Don’t Die
- Foday Mannah (Sierra Leone) — Of New Churches and Devils
- Ufuoma Kwale (Nigeria) — Countdown to Forever
The profiles of all the longlisted writers can be found here.
Congratulations and all the best to them all.
