Africa@2050 Prize Winners

First prize winner – Kristien Potgieter

Kristien is a writer and editor from Johannesburg, South Africa. She holds a PhD in Creative Writing from Bath Spa University and an MA in Creative Writing from University of East Anglia, where she was a UEA Booker scholar. Her fiction has been published online and in print, and she currently works in educational publishing as an editor for Macmillan Education South Africa. 

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Second Prize winner – Uche Peter Umezurike 

Uche holds a PhD from the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada, where he is an Assistant Lecturer. An alumnus of the International Writing Program (USA), he is a co-editor of Wreaths for a Wayfarer, an anthology of poems. His children’s book Wish Maker and collection of short stories Double Wahala Double Trouble are forthcoming from Masobe Books, Nigeria and Griots Lounge Publishing, Canada, in fall 2021.

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Third co-prize winner – Kwasi Adi-Dako

Kwasi is a learning designer and writer from Accra, Ghana. He is most curious about connections between our histories and imagined futures, and explores these ideas by reading and writing science fiction, and building worlds for his friends to play in Dungeons & Dragons. He has worked in education design leadership in South Africa, Kenya, Rwanda, Mauritius, and Ghana, focusing on curriculum design, teacher training, and student experience management. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Columbia University in Psychology and is expecting a Master of Science from Stanford University’s Learning Design Technology program.

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