Commonwealth Writers’ Prize

Aminatta Forna, born to a white Scottish mother and a black Sierra Leonean father in the early 1960s in Aberdeen, Scotland, at a time when interracial marriages were frowned upon or outlawed in many places, […]

The Commonwealth Writers’ Prize, which is internationally recognised for promoting ground-breaking works of fiction from across the globe, on Friday, announced the African Regional finalists for the 2011 competition. They are Aminatta Forna, a Sierra […]