Kenyan writer Okwiri Oduor’s winning story at the 2014 Caine Prize for African Writing opens thus: “I had meant to summon my father only long enough to see what his head looked like, but now he was here and I did not know how to send him back.”
Jackie Kay, the chair of judges for the 15th edition of the continent’s leading literary award, praised My Father’s Head as an uplifting story about mourning which is “Joycean in its reach.”
