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Stickfighting Days

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340: 126:, in rags, sniffing glue", adding: "The stickfighting element just popped into my head—there wasn't any obvious connection between the two strands, but somehow I found myself working with these two elements and the story just poured out of me". 415: 381: 286: 410: 405: 420: 225: 374: 163:, said: "Ambitious, brave and hugely imaginative, Olufemi Terry's 'Stickfighting Days' presents a heroic culture that is 400: 367: 189: 300: 122:
who fight with sticks. Terry said the story originally came into his head as "the idea of street boys in
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in its scale and conception. The execution of this story is so tight and the presentation so
325: 51: 154: 146: 129:"Stickfighting Days" won the Caine Prize for African Writing on 5 July 2010. It defeated 253: 115: 394: 291: 159: 94: 31: 194: 134: 98: 41: 339: 220: 218: 216: 347: 138: 102: 90: 77: 27: 130: 258: 230: 119: 296: 164: 123: 150: 171:, it confirms Olufemi Terry as a talent with an enormous future". 142: 168: 263: 133:
entries by writers from across Africa, including Ken Barris (
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Short story
Olufemi Terry
Sierra Leone
English
Short story
short story
Olufemi Terry
Sierra Leonean
Caine Prize for African Writing
Chimurenga
glue-sniffing
dump
Nairobi
shortlisted
South Africa
Lily Mabura
Kenya
Namwali Serpell
Zambia
Fiammetta Rocco
The Economist
Homeric
cinematic
"Olufemi Terry wins Caine prize for African writing"
The Guardian
Guardian Media Group



"African literary prize goes to Cape Town writer"

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