{"id":203158,"date":"2025-07-24T14:30:54","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:30:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-shines-in-african-literature-two-angolan-books-among-the-finalists-of-the-sankofa-book-awards-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-07-24T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:30:54","slug":"angola-shines-in-african-literature-two-angolan-books-among-the-finalists-of-the-sankofa-book-awards-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/angola\/angola-shines-in-african-literature-two-angolan-books-among-the-finalists-of-the-sankofa-book-awards-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"Angola Shines in African Literature &#8211; Two Angolan Books Among the Finalists of the Sankofa Book Awards 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"28\">Nairobi \u2014 For the\u00a0first time in history, two Angolan books have been selected as finalists for the prestigious\u00a0Sankofa Book Awards \u2013 Kenya 2025, one of Africa&#8217;s most prominent literary prizes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"59\">The nominated works \u2014\u00a0<em>&#8220;Os Bantus na Vis\u00e3o de Mafrano \u2013 Volume II&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0by the late historian and writer\u00a0 Maur\u00edcio Francisco Caetano (Mafrano), and\u00a0<em>&#8220;O Recluso: O Princ\u00edpio e o Fim de uma Injusti\u00e7a&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0by contemporary author\u00a0 Nituecheni Africano \u00a0\u2014 stood out among more than 33 writers&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202507240102.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Angola\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/angola\/\">Angola<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 For the\u00a0first time in history, two Angolan books have been selected as finalists for the prestigious\u00a0Sankofa Book Awards \u2013 Kenya 2025, one of Africa&#8217;s most prominent literary prizes. The nominated works \u2014\u00a0&#8220;Os Bantus na Vis\u00e3o de Mafrano \u2013 Volume II&#8221;\u00a0by the late historian and writer\u00a0 Maur\u00edcio Francisco Caetano (Mafrano), and\u00a0&#8220;O Recluso: O Princ\u00edpio [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":203159,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670978:cfe140d276e2da5ded06112ba02edf1a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4262],"tags":[258,256,4380,8700,3941,4263,6556,6526,8306,14167,14428,15024,257,22566,9249,254],"class_list":["post-203158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-angola","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-african","tag-among","tag-angola","tag-angola-news","tag-angolan","tag-awards","tag-book","tag-books","tag-finalists","tag-literature","tag-news","tag-sankofa","tag-shines","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00670978:cfe140d276e2da5ded06112ba02edf1a:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=203158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/203158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/203159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=203158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=203158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=203158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}