Nigeria: Local Writer, Babatunde, Shortlisted for 2012 Caine Prize

Lagos — Nigerian writer, Rotimi Babatunde, is among the five shortlisted for the 2012 prestigious Caine Prize for African Writing. This was contained in a released signed by Vice President of the Caine Prize, Ben Okri.

Babatunde made the shortlist with his entry, Bombay's Republic published in Mirabilia Review Vol. 3.9.

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