{"id":60559,"date":"2019-10-15T13:40:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-15T17:40:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsroom.carleton.ca\/?p=60559"},"modified":"2025-08-19T09:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-08-19T13:36:34","slug":"kagiso-lesego-molope-wins-the-pius-adesanmi-memorial-award-for-excellence-in-african-writing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/2019\/kagiso-lesego-molope-wins-the-pius-adesanmi-memorial-award-for-excellence-in-african-writing\/","title":{"rendered":"Kagiso Lesego Molope Wins the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                                    <h1 class=\"cu-prose-first-last font-semibold !mt-2 mb-4 md:mb-6 relative after:absolute after:h-px after:bottom-0 after:bg-cu-red after:left-px text-3xl md:text-4xl lg:text-5xl lg:leading-[3.5rem] pb-5 after:w-10 text-cu-black-700 not-prose\">\n                        Kagiso Lesego Molope Wins the Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing\n                    <\/h1>\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n<p>Kagiso Lesego Molope, a celebrated novelist and <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/english\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">English<\/a> graduate student at Carleton University, has won the inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, presented by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.as-aa.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">African Studies Association of Africa<\/a> (ASAA) for her work <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mawenzihouse.com\/product\/such-a-lonely-lovely-road\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Such a Lonely, Lovely Road<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis is meaningful on so many levels \u2013 but mainly because Prof. Adesanmi inspired excellence in all of us,\u201d says Molope. \u201cI\u2019m truly honoured.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The award celebrates an outstanding book focused on Africa or the global African world by a single author. Judges evaluated submissions that were innovative and demonstrated excellence in African writing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Eligible books could cover any historical period or discipline and be published in English, French, Portuguese or an African language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>By encouraging the creation and dissemination of African knowledge, research, creativity and excellence, the award honours the memory and monumental scholarly contribution of the late Pius Adesanmi of Carleton\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/africanstudies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Institute of African Studies<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ASAA notes the award was created as a reminder of Adesanmi\u2019s commitment to teaching, research and writing excellence, courage, outspokenness and rigour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kagiso Lesego Molope, a celebrated novelist and English graduate student at Carleton University, has won the inaugural Pius Adesanmi Memorial Award for Excellence in African Writing, presented by the African Studies Association of Africa (ASAA) for her work Such a Lonely, Lovely Road. \u201cThis is meaningful on so many levels \u2013 but mainly because Prof. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":410,"featured_media":60560,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[109,80,131],"class_list":["post-60559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-releases","tag-english","tag-fass","tag-graduate-studies"],"acf":{"cu_post_thumbnail":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/410"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=60559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60562,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60559\/revisions\/60562"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=60559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=60559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=60559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}