Since 2010, the Eko Foundation for the Furtherance of Literature (EFFL) has made it its vocation to promote African literature by supporting writers: poets, dramatists, novelists, essayists, and others who wield the pen as a weapon against ignorance, intolerance, and abuse of power. The focus of the EFFL is on African minority ethnic and linguistic cultures whose voices have not been heard in the global marketplace of literature, culture and ideas.  EFFL’s main partner has been the Cameroon Anglophone Writers’ Association (ACWA). The EFFL and ACWA have jointly recognized and honored established and emerging writers who have defied the odds and told stories of the human condition: Sheer grit, the stubborn will to survive, to exist, and to thrive in the face of oppression, injustice and the darkness of death that lurk in every corner, and just beyond every horizon.