Category Archives: África

Nobel Prize for literature awarded to Zanzibar-born novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah

África, Prêmio Nobel, Tanzânia

Via: Onmanorama

Tanzanian novelist Abdulrazak Gurnah, 72, won the Nobel Prize for Literature 2021 “for his uncompromising and compassionate penetration of the effects of colonialism and the fate of refugees,” the award-winning body said on Thursday. Based in Britain, Gurnah is the first African writer to win the award since Zimbabwean Doris Lessing in 2007 and only the second black writer from sub-Saharan Africa after Nigerian Wole Soyinka, who won in 1986. His novels include “Paradise”, set in colonial East Africa during World War I and was selected for the Booker Prize for Fiction, and “Desertion”.

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Rwandan lower house ratifies treaty establishing African Continental Free Trade Area

África, Comercio, Ruanda

Via CGTN

Rwanda’s lower house, Chamber of Deputies, on Tuesday unanimously passed a bill approving ratification of the treaty establishing the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The bill also approved ratification of protocol on trade in goods, protocol on trade in services, and protocol on rules and procedures for settlement of disputes which were signed in Kigali, Rwanda, in March 2018. All the 60 lawmakers approved the bill, which will also go to Senate for approval. The treaty will come into effect after it is ratified by 22 countries.

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