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Olufemi Terry’s accolade inspires Sierra Leonean fiction writers

The Caine Prize for African writers, regarded as African Booker Prize, was born in 2000, and named in memory of the late Michael Caine, who was chairman of the Booker Prize Committee for about 25 years. Before his death, he was working on the idea of a prize to encourage the growing recognition of the worth of African writing in English, its richness and diversity, by showcasing it to a wider audience. The African fiction prize is the most prestigious of all others, offering a hefty purse of 10,000 Pounds, the equivalent of $15,000, in addition to a month’s residency at George Washington University, Washington DC. All expenses being paid for.  (Photo:  Olufemi Terry, Caine Prize for African fiction winner 2010)

It focuses on the African short story in the range of 3000-10,000 words, reflecting on the contemporary development of the African story-telling. The remuneration breaks down into more that a dollar per word. Quite rewarding wow! This is more than exciting news for serious writers of African pedigree, who craft African flavored short stories in the Diaspora as well. There are other qualifying rules for submitting an entry for the award. Among them, the short story should be published either onlin

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Olufemi Terry's Stickfighting Days won the 11th Caine Prize for African Writing Award in 2010. It was later included in the anthology A Life in Full anthology published in 2010. This story first appeared in Chimurenga vol. 12/13.

The focus of the Caine Prize is ' on the short story, as reflecting the contemporary development of African story-telling tradition.' Here, one wonders if the 'African story-telling tradition' part deals with what publishers refer to as 'The African Story'. If so, the Caine Prize has succeeded. If the 'development' is also necessary, then it has failed totally; for now, the prize is almost seen as the ultimate search for the story that that can make readers puke and wonder if the characters are savages or humans. Consequently, writers summon all their creative power to write the most scatological stories that would define what an African story is. Whereas some writers search for the most rotten neighbourhoods in any country they can imagine, 'selling their nations horrors', others, unable to find appropriate vicinities, themes, or enough filth, create theirs. And if the Caine Prize's aim is to continuously reward these stories, describing them as 'creative, ambitious, bold, imaginative', then Stickfighting Days would be to th