The 2018 CODE Burt Award for Young Adult African Literature has gone to Kenya’s Kinyanjui Kombani for his book Finding Colombia. Kinyanjui received a cash prize of $10,000 CDN, while his publisher, Oxford University Press, East Africa Limited, received a guaranteed purchase of 2,000 copies for distribution in Kenya, another 2,000 copies for distribution in Tanzania, and […]
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CODE’s Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature Unveils 2017 All-Stars Shortlist
CODE has announced the shortlist for its All-Stars Burt Award for African Young Adult Literature. Unlike its previous editions, this one considered “all of the first prize winners of CODE’s Burt Award in Ethiopia, Ghana, Kenya, and Tanzania since 2009.” Founded in 2008 in Tanzania by CODE, “Canada’s leading international development organization uniquely focused on advancing […]
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