Erica Sugo Anyadike

The 2020 Caine Prize Shortlist: A Bit of Unsolicited Opinion│Ese Emmanuel
In 2019, reading Lesley Nneka Arimah’s Caine Prize winning story, Skinned, revolutionized the way I thought about fiction, especially “African” fiction. Since then, I had found myself in an unconscious anticipation- awaiting the stories that would the shortlisted this year, and the one story that would eventually bag the highly coveted Caine Prize. With the anxieties and drama of…