“A story is an invitation to ask questions, to seek out answers or puzzle through ideas that…need narrative to think through,” says Meron Hadero, winner of the 2021 AKO Caine Prize for African Writing, in this virtual presentation of the prize featuring the short-listed writers and introduced by Goretti Kyomuhendo, chair of judges.
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