Africa roots for Ngugi as Nobel winner emerges today

Feelers emerging from the Swedish Academy indicate that it will announce the winner of the 110th Nobel Prize for Literature today (Thursday).

Last year, American singer and songwriter, Bob Dylan, was awarded the prize and thus became the second songwriter to win it, 103 years after Indian poet, Rabindranath Tagore, emerged winner in 1913.

For daring to break from convention by naming another songwriter as the 2016 laureate, the academy was severely criticised and hailed all over the globe. It was also accused of ‘polluting’ the prize, which was previously deemed the exclusive preserve of writers published in print.

The last few days have witnessed intense speculation about the likely winner of this year’s prize.