The winner (Segun Afolabi) and shortlist from Africa’s leading annual literary award, plus additional stories from across the African world.
Shortlist: Segun Afolabi (winner), Doreen Baingana, Jamal Mahjoub, Muthal Naidoo, Ike Okonta
Mari Marcel Thekaekara is appalled by the tactics used by a website to raise money for poor Indian children. But do the ends justify the means?
‘I was the fall guy’: Julian Assange in his own words
With capital punishment debates resurfacing since the Breivik trial, Tony Mckenna argues the death penalty brutalizes not just the individual but the whole society.
In some Indian communities a girl's first period is treated with great fanfare, in others it is a carefully kept secret, says Mari Marcel Thekaekara.
Alan Hughes can’t believe the nerve of the London Mayor, who’s trying to dupe people into cleaning up the capital ahead of the Olympics.