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""When we gathered in Aburi, Ghana, in August 2024 for the inaugural CANEX Book Factory Creative Writing Workshop, we had a clear purpose: to give emerging African prose writers from the continent and the diaspora a protected space for craft, discipline, and growth. ... This anthology contains nineteen stories, speaking across recurring human pressures: longing, hunger, faith, violence, tenderness, shame, desire, survival, memory. Hunger takes many forms here, and these writers show the restraint and courage to leave a wound open on the page and trust the reader to feel it."" The Creative Africa Nexus (CANEX) is an initiative of the Africa Export Import Bank that is designed as a strategic programme designed to catalyse and support Africa's creative and cultural industries. CANEX is built to unlock the continent's vast creative potential by providing financing, infrastructure, and capacity-building resources that help creatives scale their work and compete globally. In 2024, CANEX launched the CANEX Book Factory, its literary arm, with the CANEX Creative Writing Workshop and the CANEX Prize for Publishing in Africa. This collection of stories is from the participants, drawn from all over the continent and Africa and its diaspora. Read to experience storytelling through African eyes. Read to experience the drive of these young writers. Read to know that you are amongst the first to read their stories. They will all be stars. You saw them first here. These are their names: Audrey Obuobisa-Darko - Basma Jaheen - Benjamin Cyril Arthur - Denise Westfield - Eduardo Quive - Evelyn Gachuchu - H. B. Asari - Israel Campos - Jason Kooper - Jazz Sanchez - Keletso Thobega - Lucky Grace Isingizwe - Mercy Chipukunya - Mhembeuter Jeremiah Orhemba - Miora Rakotomalala - Nabunya Hadijah Sebunyah - Rigwell Addison Asiedu - Salma Elnour - Uzoma Ihejirika

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Eghosa Imasuen is a Nigerian writer and publisher. He was a programme manager for the CANEX Book Factory programme of Afreximbank in 2024 and 2025. He is a co-founder of Narrative Landscape Press, a Nigerian publisher company. Imasuen's best known novel is Fine Boys, originally published in 2012, and included in Ohio University Press' Modern African Writers series in 2021. He lives in Lagos with his wife and their twin sons.

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