Podcasts of 2015 Shortlisted Stories

The Caine Prize has commissioned podcasts of the 2015 shortlist, to run alongside the pdfs of each story that are uploaded for audiences to read in the run up to the announcement of the 16th Caine Prize winner on 6 July. Click the links below to listen to the stories.

Segun Afolabi (Nigeria) "The Folded Leaf" in Wasafiri (London: Routledge, 2014)
Read The Folded Leaf

Listen to The Folded Leaf, read by Olu Alake, produced by Alice Lloyd.

Elnathan John (Nigeria) "Flying" in Per Contra (International: Per Contra, 2014)
Read Flying
Listen to Flying read by the author, produced by Alice Lloyd.

FT Kola (South Africa) "A Party for the Colonel" in One Story (Brooklyn, New York: One Story inc., 2014)

Read A Party for the Colonel

Listen to A Party for the Colonel read by the author, produced by Alex Feldman at Pixiu.




Masande Ntshanga (South Africa) "Space" in Twenty in 20 (South Africa: Times Media, 2014)
Read Space
Listen to Space read by the author, produced by Times Media in Johannesburg.




Namwali Serpell (Zambia) "The Sack" in Africa 39 (London: Bloomsbury, 2014)
Read The Sack
Listen to The Sack, read by Chakuchanya Harawa, produced by Alice Lloyd.