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2002 winners
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Rosina Umelo is
the author of a number of best-selling books for children and young adults. She is a
Nigerian citizen and has lived there since 1964, working as a teacher, principal of a
girls’ school, and an editor. She has six children and ten grandchildren. |
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Osman Conteh was
born in Sierra Leone in 1963. He currently works for an insurance company in Freetown. He
has three published novels. Unanswered Cries is his first novel for teenagers. |
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Susan Kajura
trained as a teacher and now works as a journalist. She is also involved with the Basic
Education for Urban Poverty Areas (BEUPA) which runs learning centres for ‘out of
school’ children in Kampala. Here she creates captivating and entertaining stories
which also carry a life skills message. It was her time spent at these centres that
inspired Daudi’s Dream, her first published novel. Susan lives in Uganda
with her husband and three children. |
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Born in 1964, Yvonne Vera
lived in Zimbabwe, until completing her secondary schooling. She then enrolled at York
University, Toronto, Canada, where she gained a BA Hons in English, a Master of Arts in
English and a Doctorate, also in English. She is the author of several short stories and
novels, one of which was shortlisted for the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, Africa
Region. Now back in Zimbabwe, Yvonne works as the Director of the National Gallery of
Zimbabwe in Bulawayo. |
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