I'm really tired of "unhappy" Africa. There has got to be ONE African writer who had a good day, a good time, did some happy foolishness/mischief, or had a reliable source of nutrition. I'm sure of it although these writers have yet to supply primary documentation. It is as if the entire audience who reads literature by African writers also has a secondary occupation as sin eaters. What's a sin eater? You put a feast on the body of the dearly departed and pay someone to come and eat the food which has absorbed the sin from the corpse. African writers supply the feast, or so it seems to me.
I review the titles, the synopses, the abstracts and it is so sad that I too become depressed!!!!
Thank you for your comments. I felt the same thing but didn't want to say it out loud.
La Vonda Staples
On Sun, May 22, 2011 at 6:44 AM, Ikhide <xokigbo@yahoo.com> wrote:
--The Caine Prize for African Writing has been great for African literature by showcasing some truly good works by African writers. The good news is that the Caine Prize is here to stay. The bad news is that someone is going to win the Caine Prize this year. This is a shame; having read the stories on the shortlist, I conclude that a successful African writer must be clinically depressed, chronicling in excruciating detail every open sore of Africa. Apologies to Wole Soyinka.- Ikhide
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