Arts & Books

The Chair of Judges, Bernardine Evaristo MBE, announced Rotimi Babatunde as the winner of the £10,000 prize at a dinner held this evening (Monday, 2 July) at the Bodleian Library in Oxford.

(Ekegusii version)

Ninche Masese

Mbono nkare gocha korwa Bundo

Rigereria buna nyeagete ebundo

Nkogenda esegi n’enyundo

Nabogoirie ritimo n’etindo

Nachire buna omorwani

Namatimo y’abarwani

Nemesetwa y’abarwani

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It’s a bit of a cliché to decry the demeaning depiction of women in music videos, but Loverance’s “Up!” featuring 50 Cent deserves a re-hashing of that old argument.

Community healing implies a transitional process: the divisive events have passed, but their effects still linger, their resolution incomplete. The title of the Institute for Justice and Reconciliation’s new collection on Zimbabwe is, therefore, something of a misnomer.