He may not be well known in Uganda, but Tanzanian national Prof Abdulrazak Gurnah is a big name representing East Africa in the annals of the Nobel Prize award. Gurnah scooped the 2021 Nobel Prize for Literature award, becoming the first in East Africa to earn it, and the second in Africa after Wole Soyinka in 1986. He is the second East African to win any Nobel Prize after Kenyan national Wangari Maathai won the prize for Peace in 2004. With 10…
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