We are pleased to announce the shortlisted books and authors for the 2023 Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize.
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Mauritius-born writer resident in Ethiopia, Elizabeth Bose O. Bien-Aime, addresses the plight of unaccompanied migrant minors and how the government of Italy has legislated a world-changing law:
Speculative fiction is a genre that explores settings other than those that exist in the real world. The genre can encompass supernatural or futuristic works. Africanfuturism is a subgenre of speculative fiction centred on the African people, their culture, history, and technology.
We are pleased to announce the Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize advisory board. The advisory board shall oversight the Prize judging and award criteria and offer their varied expertise toward running the Prize.
In our upcoming release, Mauritius-born writer resident in Ethiopia, Elizabeth Bose O. Bien-Aime, addresses the plight of unaccompanied migrant minors and how the government of Italy has legislated a world-changing law:
When Lydia Mkunde falls in love, it is hard, fast, and at first sight. She doesn’t listen to the ‘small voice’ telling her that Jabez Kimoni is not the one. Her happily-ever-after is a nightmare, and she wishes to end the pain when the man she marries becomes someone she can’t recognise.
Therefore, the Alliance Française de Nairobi, as a sponsor, is a lifelong strategic partner for the Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize because of its rich potential to encourage dialogue in contemporary society. The partnership seeks to give voice to a new generation of budding writers for whom traditional publishing has confined to the sidelines. This…
We are pleased to announce the 2023 Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize judging panel. The panel is drawn from academicians, editors, publishers, writers, and readers.
We’re honoured to have the wonderful and committed team at this year’s Prize and work together in recognising self-published in Kenya.
The theme of this year’s poetry collection will be centred around Strange Water. The submitted works should appreciate a futuristic Africa, our myths and beliefs, magical realms, and fantastical creatures. The pieces could be utopian or dystopian. This theme is rooted firmly in the subgenre of African futurism in line with Africa Union’s (AU) ‘Agenda…
The Afrika Redefined Indie Book Prize is an annual prize managed by Mystery Publishers, a Kenyan premier pan-African independent publisher with a bias toward African speculative fiction and genre/pop literature stories.
Mystery Publishers bestselling books of 2022, combined paperbacks and ebooks, are compiled from sales reports from all distribution channels.
When Lydia Mkunde falls in love, it is hard, fast, and at first sight. She doesn’t listen to the ‘small voice’ telling her that Jabez Kimoni is not the one. Her happily-ever-after is a nightmare, and she wishes to end the pain when the man she marries becomes someone she can’t recognise.