This is not true:
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It is virtually impossible to write about anything else.
-- Ikhide
No single story sums up the African story.
My own writing is certainly not about the negative experiences I went through in Nigeria beceause they did not have the impact on me that the positive experiences had.
My writing is also able to correlate both my African and my European experience into a synergistic whole.
From the vantage point of my experience in Benin city, I am able to reflect on conceptions of the interrelationship between space, time, infinity and consciousness as evoked by the correlation of sacred and secular space that marks the landscape of Benin. These reflections emerge in my prose poetry on the concept of Edo as the centre of the universe, a centering I interpret in philosophical and individualistic terms.
From this standpoint, I am developing my own contribution to philosophies of space in dialogue with related ideas from Asia, the Western tradition, Africa and Aboriginal Australia. I expect to publish that book soon.
My experience with economic realities in Nigeria also makes me amused about efforts to streamline the continent in terms of its inadequacies.
There is significant evidence of thriving businesses in Nigeria, some of them with outposts outside Africa.
Thanks
toyin
On 7 February 2011 09:26, toyin adepoju <toyin.adepoju@googlemail.com> wrote:
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Date: 7 February 2011 08:08
Subject: [NaijaPolitics] The challenges of diaspora African writers
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From our own Ikhide. Enjoy.
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