Caine Prize shortlist

       They've announced the shortlist for the 2012 Caine Prize for African Writing -- and you can read the shortlisted titles at the official site; one of them is described as: "a hardboiled noir tale involving a disembodied leg" -- surely you have to check that out.
       The finalists were selected from: "122 entries from 14 African countries" -- so it is a bit disappointing that more African countries weren't represented (there are over fifty of them).