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The Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, 2004 Award Winning titles

2004 Winners

JUNIOR AWARD
Bamboo Girl
Anthony Kwamlah Johnson (Ghana)

SENIOR AWARD
Begotten of the Gods
Osita Okoroafor (Nigeria)

NEW CHILDREN'S WRITER AWARD
Wandi's Little Voice
Ellen Mulenga Aaku (Zambia)

The Macmillan Writer's Prize for Africa, 2002 Award Winning titles (published)

2002 Winners

awp who.jpg (12490 bytes) JUNIOR AWARD
Who are you?
Rosina Umelo (Nigeria)

When a little girl follows Ada and Chidi home, they soon discover that she is covered with cuts and bruises. Is she lost, or has she run away? What will Papa and the neighbours say when they find out that mama has taken the little girl in?
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awp cries.jpg (12750 bytes) SENIOR AWARD
Unanswered Cries
Osman Conteh (Sierra Leone)

It is in the school holidays and Olabisi leaves the city to visit her mother in the village. She soon finds herself under pressure to follow tradition and become a circumcised bondo woman, but Olabisi is determined to fight for her own freedom of choice.
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SPECIAL AWARD, for the most promising new children's writer
awp daudi's.jpg (13583 bytes) Daudi's Dream
Susan Kajura (Uganda)

When Daudi learns that there are prizes to be found inside soda bottle tops, he starts to collect them. But others want the winning bottle tops too ...
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awp sun.jpg (16009 bytes) 2002 Shortlist

The sun, the moon and the stars
Chidinma Ezeigbo (Nigeria)

Schoolgirl Josie longs to dance for the bishop, but she isn't even in the dance group, and its leader, Elo, hates her. How can her dreams ever come true?
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awp interview.jpg (14169 bytes) The Interview
Patrick Ngugu (Kenya)

This interview is young Joe Kimani's big chance. It's for a great job in a modern lab, with good money so that he could pay back his school fees arrears and get the certificate he needs. But something comes between Joe and the interview - a weird accident that begins to shape his whole
life.
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awp lindiwe.jpg (14446 bytes) Someone Called Lindiwe
Gail Smith (South Africa)

Lindiwe is fifteen. She has no father, and her mother has a drink problem. Her grandparents and her boyfriend, Carlos, provide her with the love that her mother denies her. Then a sudden revelation about her past forces Lindiwe to re-examine her identity and to make difficult decisions about her future.
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awp inyangani.jpg (17388 bytes) In the Shadow of Inyangani
Shelley Davidow (South Africa)

When Lomu goes up Mount Inyangani to look for a missing English girl he has no idea that he is about to become the unwitting hero in an impossible quest.
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