Across Africa, book industry stakeholders are excited about the recently launched Canex Prize for African Publishing established by Afreximbank, Narrative Landscape Press, and the James and Grace Adichie Foundation. The prize aims to be an effective, indigenous successor to the NOMA Award for Publishing in Africa, which ceased in 2009. To judge the inaugural Canex prize, three book industry luminaries were chosen: Wale Okediran (Nigeria), Renée Edwige Dro (Côte d’Ivoire), and Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Egypt). The inaugural winner of the Prize was Cassava Republic Press, recognised for publishing, Female Fear Factory: Unravelling Patriarchy’s Culture of Violence by Pumla Dineo Gqola. The prize includes a $20,000 award. To learn more about the vision for the prestigious prize, DETOUN GABY-WILLIAMS recently sat down with Wale Okediran, chairman of the jury.
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