Nairobi — Even after missing the Nobel Prize for Literature by a whisker this year, Ngugi wa Thiong'o remains East Africa's best bet if the prize is ever to come to the continent again. Other likely African winners would be Algerian female writer Assia Djeber and Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah.
Ngugi would have been the fifth African writer to win the coveted prize, after Nigerian Wole Soyinka (1988), Egyptian Naguib Mahfouz (1988), and white South Africans Nadine Gordimer (1991) and JM Coetzee (2003).
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