The 2008 Caine Prize for African Writing has been won by Henrietta Rose-Innes, a South African writer who has written a science-fictional tale of a catastrophic event in Cape Town. The Guardian has posted the full story online at - http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/jul/09/caineprize.

An interesting analysis of this story and why so little African science-fiction has been published, was written by Kenyan science writer Liz Ng'ang'a - click here.

Nick Wood - Sep 2008.