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The Dogs and The Baboons: The Human Rights Revolution Nigeria Needs

The Institute for Creative Dying

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Guidelines 2025

Announcement - Submission Closed

Longlist Profiles 2025

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Congratulations to Gift Nyoni, the winner of the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 🎊 👏

A big thank you to everyone who played a part in the success of this year's edition of the prize.

An anthology of the longlisted stories will be published in t

The winner of the 2025 Afritondo Short Story Prize is the Zimbabwean writer, Gift Nyoni, for his short story, Heat.

On "Heat", the judges said: Propulsive and compulsively readable, "Heat" is a story about movement and its attend

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📢 The shortlist for the Afritondo Short Story Prize 2025 will be announced on Friday, April 18, 2025. Watch this space.