Africa: Author Simbarashe Kundizeza Cleared of AI Allegations

Zimbabwean writer Simbarashe Kundizeza has been cleared of allegations that he had used artificial intelligence to write his award-winning short story, The Blue Fighter. The reports had emerged after an article in The Atlantic cited results from an AI detection tool, which suggested that the story may have been generated by artificial intelligence.

Kundizeza won the 2026 Caine Prize for African Writing, which comes with a $13,000 endowment; however, the allegations prompted the Caine Prize to…