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Eswatini writer wins Commonwealth literature prize

Writer Ntsika Kota becomes the first writer from Eswatini to win the Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa with his story 'And the Earth drank deep'. Trained as a professional chemist, Kota tells Bola Mosuro what inspired him to set his story about the first human murder in prehistoric times.

(Photo: Swazi writer Ntsika Kota. Credit: Commonwealth Short Story Prize for Africa)

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