{UAH} Ugandan poet Juliane Okot P’ Bitek awarded 2017 Glenna Luschei Literary Prize

Ugandan poet Juliane Okot P' Bitek awarded 2017 Glenna Luschei Literary Prize

Juliane Okot Bitek -- Photo Credit: Brittle Paper

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City: 51 Poems and the Stories Behind Them.

The African Poetry Book fund which administers this annual prize was established by Laura and Robert F. X. Sillerman in partnership with the literary journal Prairie Schooner. Its primary objective is to celebrate and cultivate the poetic arts of Africa both within Africa and in the Diaspora. The Glenna Luschei Prize for African Poetry is funded by literary philanthropist and poet Glenna Luschei. It is the only pan-African book prize of its kind, it is focused on promoting African poetry written in English or written in African languages but translated into English.

The cover page of 100 Days by Juliane Okot Bitek courtesy of African Poetry Book Fund

An interesting phenomenon is that critical examination of the current history of African literature shows that the pioneering African writers of the last century were basically men who wrote about post-colonial and anti-colonial themes, but now the good African writers are substantially women who deal with the complexities in the post-modernist literary outlook.

African literature now has women writers as its pillars. Authorial excellencies evinced in the works of Laila Lalami, Taiye Selasie, Emma Dabiri, Penina Muhando, Grace Musila, Jennifer Makumbi, Okwiri and Oduor is no other testimony but an argument that African literature is shifting slowly from being a turf for men to an engendered space of socialization courtesy of improving education policies.

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Gwokto La'Kitgum

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