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World Service,4 mins

Eswatini writer wins Commonwealth literature prize

Focus on Africa

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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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