2024 Caine Prize for African Writing has been handed to South African writer Nadia Davids her short story, Bridling, published in The Georgia Review in 2023.

This year’s competition, which happens to fall on Caine Prize’s 25th year anniversary, recieved 320 entries from 28 African countries vying for the coveted prize.

Commenting on the winning story, the Chair of Judges, award winning author Chika Unigwe, said: “Bridling is an impressive achievement, a triumph of language, storytelling and risk-taking while maintaining a tightly controlled narrative about women who rebel. It embodies the spirit of the Caine Prize, which is to celebrate the richness and diversity of short stories by African writers. That is to say, to challenge the single story of African literature.”

Nadia Davids will receive the prestigious £10,000 Caine Prize, in addition to having her work featured in the 2024 Caine Prize Anthology, Midnight In the Morgue and Other Stories published by Cassava Republic Press. Runners-up Tryphena Yeboah, Samuel Kolawole, Uche Okonkwo and Pemi Aguda will receive a prize of £500 and also feature in the 2024 Caine Prize Anthology.

This year's shortlistees were:

The shortlisted writers for the 2024 Caine Prize for African Writing are:

The submissions came from 28 different countries, including South Africa, Kenya, Zambia, Nigeria, Rwanda, Zimbabwe, Lesotho, Sierra Leone, Somalia, Tanzania, Ghana, Uganda, Ethiopia, Namibia, Morocco, Gambia, Senegal, Eritrea, Malawi, Liberia, Botswana, Equatorial Guinea, South Sudan, Mauritius, Ethiopia, Libya, Algeria and Cameroon.

 

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