The Miles Morland Basis has unveiled the shortlist for the 2025 version of its Morland African Writing Scholarships.
The choice, totalling twenty nominees, was drawn from a pool over 800 entries from revealed African writers, over 300 greater than final 12 months.
The Miles Morland Basis’s primary goal is to assist entities in Africa which allow Africans to get their voices heard. It’s significantly excited by supporting African writing and African literature.
This 12 months’s shortlisted writers embody:
- Aanu Adeoye (Nigeria)
- Adeola Opeyemi (Nigeria)
- Caitlin Stobie (South Africa)
- Carlo Saio (Kenya)
- Chinelo Onwualu (Nigeria)
- Joseph Ruzvidzo (Zimbabwe)
- Megan Ross (South Africa)
- Monique Eleanor Kwachou Tangah (Cameroon)
- Mphuthumi Ntabeni (South Africa)
- Mvemba Dizolele (Congo Democratic Republic)
- Nzube Nlebedim (Nigeria)
- Pulane Mpondo (South Africa)
- Rigwell Addison Asiedu (Ghana)
- Sa’idu Sulaiman (Nigeria)
- Shubnum Khan (South Africa)
- Sven Axelrad (South Africa)
- Timothy Ogene (Nigeria)
- Togara Muzanenhamo (Zimbabwe)
- Wesley Macheso (Malawi)
- Yvonne Zabu (Uganda)
To assist meet the necessity for writers to make a residing whereas on the similar time harnessing their artistic potential, the MMF yearly awards a small variety of Morland Writing Scholarships, with the goal being to permit every Scholar the time to provide the primary draft of a accomplished e-book. The scholarships are open to anybody writing within the English language who was born in Africa, or each of whose dad and mom had been born in Africa.
Students will obtain a grant of £18,000, paid month-to-month over the course of twelve months. On the discretion of the Basis, students writing non-fiction, who require further analysis time, might obtain a further grant, paid over a interval of as much as eighteen months.
The Miles Morland Basis was established in 2013 with the goal of supporting entities in Africa which permit Africans to get their voices higher heard. The Basis has supported literary festivals in Africa, London’s Movie Africa Competition, the Caine Prize for African Writing, a number of African academic initiatives and the brand new Rhodes Scholarships for Africans. It has additionally supported a number of human rights organisations, an array of London theatres, Oxford College girls’s light-weight rowing, initiatives in Haiti and Palestine, a literacy initiative in London’s Shoreditch, plus a number of schemes which assist recovering addicts and detained prisoners within the UK.
The winners of the 2025 Morland African Writing Scholarships will probably be introduced on twenty second November, 2025.