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Caine Prize winner: 'I thought I was going to be a lawyer'

Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah has been awarded the 2019 Caine Prize for African Writing for her novel 'Skinned'. Her story imagines a society where young girls are ritually 鈥榰ncovered鈥� and must marry before reclaiming the right to be dressed.

(Photo: Nigerian writer Lesley Nneka Arimah. Credit: 麻豆社)

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