Every year the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People host their NAACP Image Awards to celebrate black excellence.On the 22nd of February live on BET the 51st edition of the awards showcase will roar to life and a lot of talented acts will be looking to take home this prestigious award that might as well use FUBU as its tagline because its 'For Us By Us'.Black Panther star Chadwick Boseman and his costar Michael B Jordan as well as Yara Shahidi,Tracy Ellis Rose,Eddie Murphy,Anthony Anderson,Don Cheadle and Tiffany Haddish et al are nominated for various awards this year.
Of particular interest to us is the Outstanding Literary Work of Fiction award which has our very own Petina Gappah among the nominees.The Zimbabwean literary maestro goes head to head with other esteemed wordsmiths like Margaret Busby,Margaret Wilkerson,Jacqueline Woodson and Ta-Nehisi Coates.Voting has already started on the NAACP website with the 7th of February being the last day of voting.This is not Petina's first international recognition as the critically acclaimed writer has previously won the Guardian First Book award for 'An Elegy for Easterly' as well as Brittle Paper's 2016 African Literary Person of the year.
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