In 1962 a conference of African literature in English language, the first African Writers Conference, was held at Makerere University in Kampala, Uganda. It was attended by many prominent African writers, including Chinua Achebe (winner of the Commonwealth Prize), Wole Soyinka (later Nobel Laureate in Literature), Ezekiel Mphahlele, Lewis Nkosi, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (then known as James Ngugi) and Rajat Neogy (founder of Transition Magazine).
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