Highlights from Etisalat Prize for Literature 2015 award ceremony [Video]

Interested in all the awesome stuff that went down at the 2015 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature award ceremony?

You can now watch the highlights, performances and all the bookish stuff that went down at the event. (Asha's beautiful performance included).

The Etisalat Prize for Literature was created by Etisalat Nigeria in 2013 and it is the first ever pan-African prize to celebrate first-time African writers of published fiction books.

The prize aims to serve as a platform for the discovery of new creative talent out of the continent and invariably promote the burgeoning publishing industry in Africa.

READ: 'Tram 83' by Fiston Mwanza Mujila [Book Review]

Congolese author Fiston Mwanza Mujila won the 2015 Etisalat Prize for Literature for his book Tram 83, a novel about life in the DRC and a writer's walk through it.

Zimbabwean NoViolet Bulawayo won the inaugural Etisalat Prize for We Need New Names in 2013, and Songeziwe Mahlangu won the 2014 edition for Penumbra.

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