I feel proud to say that I have read both of the works written by Ghanaians which have been included in the 2010 Commonwealth Writers’ Prize regional shortlists.
These are:
Ayesha Harruna Attah’s Harmattan rain, which is shortlisted for the Africa regional first book, which I mentioned earlier.
Nii Ayikwei Parkes’ Tail of the blue bird, 
which is shortlisted under the South Asia and Europe category for a first book. I did mention in an earlier post having considerable palaver in actually getting a hold of this book, but once I did I actually enjoyed it.
Not surprisingly the rest of the African nominees were either from South Africa or Nigeria. But still I do feel pretty proud. Yeah Ghana!
Unfortunately there hasn’t been much coverage of this news in the Ghanaian press, apart from an article in The Daily Dispatch of 23 February 2010 – not online though, so I can’t include a link. Maybe there will be more in the next few days?
Accra books and things 