Winner of the 2009 Hurston/Wright Legacy Award

Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize for Best First Book, Africa Region

Winner of PEN/Beyond Margins Award

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction

Nominated for the Guardian First Book Award

Nominated for the Caine Prize for African Writing

Finalist for the Dayton Literary Peace Prize in the Fiction Category

Longlisted for the Story Prize