Winners in each category will be awarded with $2,000 prize; judges’ names announced.
Sindh Courier Report
Accra, Ghana
Following the expiration of submissions for the Pan African Writers Association Prize for Poetry, a total of 363 entries made up of Arabic (88), English (179), French (88) and Kiswahili (8) were received.
Consequently, the following eminent Writers and Academicians have been nominated as Judges in the under listed categories. Dr. Wale Okediran. Secretary General, PAWA, announced the judges’ names chosen to read the poet’s contributions.
For Arabic poetry judges will be Ashraf Aboul-Yazid (Egypt), award winning Poet and Journalist and Fatima Bouhraka (Morocco), award winning Poet and former President, Moroccan Association of Poetry.
For English poems judges will be Prof Kwadwo Opoku-Agyenang (Ghana), Professor of Literature at the University of Cape Coast, Ghana, Dr. Idris Okpanachi (Nigeria), award Winning Poet and Reader at the Federal University, Dutse, Nigeria, John Rusimbi (Rwanda), poet and President, PAWA Council, Maureen Isaacson (South Africa), editor, Writer and multiple Literary Award Judge, and Lillian Aujo (Uganda), award Winning Poet and Author.
French category will have 3 judges: Eric Bekale (Gabon), poet and Literary Award Judge, Ketline Adodo (Togo), teacher and Member of the Society of French Poets and Dr. Alain Serge Agnessan (Ivory Coast), award Winning Poet
The Kiswahili poetic contest will be judged by Esther Mngodo (Tanzania), poet and Kiswahili teacher and Dr. Hamisi Babusa (Kenya), KiSwahili poet and song writer.
The Judges will work for a period of two months to produce the eventual winners in each category for the $2,000 per category Prizes.
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