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Okwiri Oduor Wins 15th Caine Prize for African Writing

Kenya’s Okwiri Oduor won the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing, often described as Africa’s leading literary award, for her short story “My Father’s Head” from Feast, Famine and Potluck (Short Story Day Africa), South Africa, 2013).

The Chair of Judges, Jackie May MBE, announced Okwiri Oduor as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held Monday night at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

“My Father’s Head” explores the narrator’s difficulty in dealing with the loss of her father and examines the themes of memory, loss and loneliness. The narrator works in an old people’s home and comes into contact with a priest, giving her the courage to recall her buried memories of her father.

Kay praised the story, saying “Okwiri Oduor is a writer we are all really excited to have discovered. “My Father’s Head” is an uplifting story about mourning – Joycean in its reach. She exercises an extraordinary amount of control and yet the story is subtle, tender and moving. It is a story you want to return to the minute you finish it.”

Okwiri Oduor directed the inaugural Writivism Literary Festival in Kampala Uganda last year, is the author of the critically praised novella The Dream Chasers, is a 2014 MacDowell Colony fellow, and is currently at work on her debut novel.

divine teachings..

"We must look, first, to Almighty God, Who has raised man above the animals and endowed him with intelligence and reason. We must put our faith in Him, that He will not desert us or permit us to destroy humanity which He created in His image. And we must look into ourselves, into the depth of our souls. We must become something we have never been and for which our education and experience and environment have ill-prepared us. We must become bigger than we have been: more courageous, greater in spirit, larger in outlook. We must become members of a new race, overcoming petty prejudice, owing our ultimate allegiance not to nations but to our fellow men within the human community."

--HIS DIVINE MAJESTY KING HAILE SELASSIE I THE FIRST

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