Granta deputy editor Ellah Allfrey and author Aminatta Forna are to join the judging panel for this year's Caine Prize for African Writing.

Chair of the panel will be Libyan novelist Hisham Matar, with Georgetown University professor of English literature Henry Schwarz and publisher, film and travel writer Vicky Unwin completing...

Ugandan writer Monica Arac de Nyeko has won the "African Booker". The writer picked up the £10,000 Caine Prize for African writing three years after she was a finalist for the prize. She is the eighth winner of the award.

Her story "Jambula Tree" appeared in anthology published last year, entitled African...