​Nigerians have shown themselves strong as 11 of them were shortlisted in Miles Morland Foundation. They were the top ranking country as 11 out of the 22 shortlisted were Nigerians. Infact South African which seems to trail after them has 4 people nominated. That is an achievement that can't be overlook. Despite the hard work to make sure the best people were chosen, the organiser were really impressed by the talents displayed and really commended their effort in making it work. However, they expressed their disappointment in the fact that only one Nonfiction writer was chosen for the competition and they are encouraging writers to tell more of African stories.
In her word, Miles Morland said" Our only disappointment is that, although we had a number of non-fiction submissions, only one made it to the short list. We are actively trying to encourage non-fiction, Africans telling Africa’s story.”
The decision on who the winner would be made on 12th December by the carefully selected Judges- Ellah Wakatama Allfrey (from Zimbabwe, who will in the chair), Femi Terry (from Sierra Leone who will serve as the assistant) and (Muthoni Garland from Kenya). Each of the winner would be given £18000. Find below a list of the shortlisted ones.
Abdul Adan – Somalia
Jekwu Anyaegbuna – Nigeria
Ayesha Harruna Attah – Ghana
Rotimi Babatunde - Nigeria
Dayo Forster – Gambia
Amy Heydenrych – S Africa
Abubakar Ibrahim – Nigeria
Nneoma Ike-Njoku – Nigeria
Julie Iromuanya – Nigeria
Hamse Ismail - Somalia
William Ifeanyi Moore – Nigeria
Lidudumalingani Mqombothi – S Africa
Nick Mulgrew – S Africa
Otosirieze Obi-Young - Nigeria
Okwiri Oduor – Kenya
Adeola Opeyemi - Nigeria
Olawale Olayemi – Nigeria
Troy Onyango – Kenya
Mary Ononokpono – Nigeria
Koye Oyedeji - Nigeria
Bryony Rheam – Zimbabwe
Sandisile Tshuma – Zimbabwe


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Cool. Could you enlighten more on how these people were selected.

Akposb:
Cool. Could you enlighten more on how these people were selected.

They sent in their stories - Novel(synopsis though but about 10k words) to be selected.