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Previous Winners - 2004
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Anthony Kwamlah Johnson, Winner of the Junior section of
the Children’s Literature Award, 2004
Meri leaves her village home for Accra full of confidence. Mma has promised to give
her a sewing machine and to teach her how to use it. Mma is lying. She sends
Meri out into the city to carry loads for anyone who calls her. It is hard and often
dangerous work. Is there any way out for Meri? |
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Osita Okoroafor, Winner of the Senior section of
the Children’s Literature Award
The strange, ungainly hero of this story is called Cinema
because he loves to spend his evenings at the Metro Cinema. His obsession nearly
results in his death - but, in the end, helps bring a new life to those who know him. |
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Ellen Mulenga Banda-Aaku, Winner of the New Children's
Writer Award
The lovable narrator of this novel is Wandi, a young girl balanced between childhood and
adulthood, and between the shanty town where she loves to play with her friends and the
refined suburbs to which her mother would like to confine her. |
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