The Guardian book blog has published an article about Nnedi Okorafor’s win in the Wole Soyinka Prize (something I wrote about on SFAW a few days ago). This is really a rather huge story, because the Wole Soyinka is the top prize for literature in all of Africa, and the book is a YA fantasy novel written by a woman. As Sam Jordison says, you can’t imagine the Booker Prize ever deigning to notice such a work. Africa, it seems is a little less stuffy.

Still, another good deed done. Now all I need to do is get hold of a copy of Zahra the Windseeker.