The CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa has introduced the longlist for its 2025 version.
This yr’s longlist options eleven titles, chosen from a whole lot of submissions throughout the continent. The choices showcase the range of voices, views, and storytelling on the continent.
The 2025 CANEX Prize for Publishing longlist consists of the next books:
- The Comrade’s Spouse – Barbara Boswell (Jacana Media)
- Damaged – Fatima Bala (Masobe Books)
- Expensive Zimi – Chiziterem Chijioke (Quramo Books)
- No Pink within the Rainbow – Angel Patricks Amegbe (Masobe Books)
- In Silence My Coronary heart Speaks – Thobeka Yose (Karavan Press)
- A Blow To The Head: A Historical past of Violence – Andries Du Toit (Modjaji Books)
- One Hundred Years of Dispossession – Lebogang Seale (Jacana Media)
- Algériennes: De Mère en Fille – Hind Soyer (Casbah Editions)
- Like Water for Sea – Olumide Popoola (Cassava Republic Press)
- Half Portraits Below Water – Dennis Mugaa (Masobe Books)
- The Black Atlantic’s Triple Burden – Adekeye Adebajo (Jacana Media)
Established as a mission of the African Export-Import Financial institution’s (Afreximbank) CANEX Guide Manufacturing unit and Narrative Panorama Press, the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa is open to writers from throughout the African continent. The entire prize fund is $28,000, with $20,000 awarded to the winner and $2,000 distributed to every of the 4 finalists.
“African tales deserve African publishers behind them. That’s why the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa issues. It honours the publishing homes pushing our narratives ahead, capturing our histories, struggles, desires, and pleasure – with the authenticity solely lived expertise can convey”, the organisers famous in an announcement. “This yr’s longlist is daring, recent and stuffed with objective. CANEX recognises the vital position African publishers play throughout the literary worth chain – with out them, our tales threat going untold. That’s why we highlight their work and create areas the place they’ll thrive.”
Now in its second version, the Prize honours publishers whose work gives homegrown views on the continent, celebrating the most effective in African fiction and non-fiction. The inaugural winner in 2024 was Feminine Concern Manufacturing unit by Pumla Dineo Gqola, printed by Cassava Republic.
The winner of this yr’s Prize shall be introduced on the CANEX Weekend, which is able to happen in Algiers, Algeria, from 4th to tenth September 2025.