The publishers would like to thank: the judges, Elechi Amadi, Osonye Tess Onwueme and Margaret Busby; the thirty-nine authors; the translators; the editor, Ellah Wakatama Allfrey; Binyavanga Wainaini for research on the longlist; and all those, including Cristina Fuentes, Jásminka Romanos, Peter Florence, Anna Simpson, Imogen Corke and Becky Alexander, who have contributed to making an ambitious vision a concrete reality. They also gratefully acknowledge the following original publishers of the pieces listed below (pieces not listed have been taken from as yet unpublished works):
‘The Shivering’ extracted from the story collection The Thing Around Your Neck by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Copyright © 2009 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. For the UK and Commonwealth: reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers Ltd. For Canada: reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf Canada, a division of Random House of Canada Limited, a Penguin Random House Company. For the USA: reprinted by permission of The Wylie Agency. All rights reserved.
‘The Banana Eater’ by Monica Arac de Nyeko was first published in AGNI online, 2010 (https://www.bu.edu/agni/fiction/africa/arac-de-nyeko.html).
Extract from All Our Names by Dinaw Mengestu. Copyright © 2014 Dinaw Mengestu, reproduced by permission of Hodder and Stoughton Ltd.
Extract from The Wayfarer’s Daughter by Chibundu Onuzo (forthcoming Faber and Faber Ltd, 2016), Copyright © Chibundu Onuzo, 2014, used by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd.
Penguin, London, for Taiye Selasi, from Ghana Must Go (Viking, 2013). Copyright © Taiye Selasi, 2013, for World (exc. Canada and the USA); from Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi, copyright © 2013 by Taiye Selasi. Used by permission of The Penguin Press, a division of Penguin Group (USA) LLC; Andrew Wylie Agency, for Taiye Selasi Ghana Must Go (Hamish Hamilton, 2013) © 2013, Taiye Selasi, for Canada. All rights reserved.