- Franke Fellow, Yale University, 2024.
- STIAS: (Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study) Writer, 2023.
- DAAD: Artist in Berlin, 2022
- Grants of Art: Arts Council, 2021
- The First Woman shortlisted for The Diversity Book Awards, 2021
- The First Woman Won the Jhalak Book of the Year, 2021
- The First Woman shortlisted for The Encore Prize, 2020
- The first Woman shortlisted for the James Tait Black Prize, 2021
- A Girl is a Body of Water longlisted for Aspen Words Literary Prize, 2021
- The NAIS-KNAW writer’s Residence, 2021
- Kintu shortlisted for Prix Les Afriques, 2020
- Manchester Happened longlisted for Edge Hill Prize, 2020
- The Alan Chuese Fellowship, 2019
- Kintu Longlisted for The Prix Du Medicis, 2019
- Manchester Happened Shortlisted for Big Book Award (Harper’s Bazaar), 2019
- Kintu Winner Prix Transfuge Du Meilluer Premier Roman Francais, 2019
- Kintu Shortlisted for Edward Stanford Awards, 2019 (Fiction with a Sense of Place)
- Windham and Campbell Prize, 2018
- Grants of Art: The Arts council, 2015
- Kintu longlisted for the Etisalat Prize, 2015
- Global and Regional winner (Africa) The Commonwealth Short Story Prize, 2014.
- Kintu Winner of Kwani? Manuscript Project, 2013.