Tanzania authors scoop top Kiswahili literature awards
Philipo Oyaro (L) receives his award from the Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize Chairperson Abdullatif Abdallah and Safal Group CEO Anders Lindgren. PHOTO | SILAS WAFULA | NMG
Tanzanian authors Philipo Oyaro and Fatuma Salim have won the top prizes at the 2023 Safal-Cornell Kiswahili Prize for African Literature competition.
Oyaro won the first prize in the Fiction category for his novel Dunia Duara (The Earth is Round), while Salim’s poetry collection Changa la Macho (Sand in the Eyes) took the top prize in the Poetry category.
