this is very bad criticism.
bulawayo's book was good. for me perhaps it was overly stylized at moments. but the notion that it was a programmatic indictment of africa and its ills is soooooooo tedious and dumb, it hurts my drinklobes to read it, and i don't even drink that much.
we need an end to the word "western" here. i'd like to know the address of the western person, so i can go out and take him down. where does he live? is it here? is it next door? is it my neighbor? is it my department? is it my state? is it in the east or west side of new york? is it in the highrise? is it in the ghetto? is it underground? is it on the plane?
i think it is there, on the plane. always there, ahead of us, flying on a cloud, someone's dream of a place, where plastic food and canned movies represent the ideal amenities to a life beyond the boundaries of the fortress.
it is nowhere. well, i know in No Violet's book it is in north Kalamazoo, where the black girls go out partying in their mom's "borrowed" cars, and watch out for potholes and the occasional madman.
that's the answer. kalamazoo is about 70 miles west of here, so it must be the west. next time i hear about all the bad things he is doing, i am going to go to kalamazoo and finish him off once and for all.
and after that, we won't be bothered with young talented african women writers daring to be nominated for the booker award.
sheriff ken
--And my e-friend responds:
"Until we set up the infrastructure for publishing, distributing and marketing our literature, it is time to stop crying foul abeg..."
And as we say in my village, Word! Lobatan. I salute the West, in fact enh, I salute every white oyinbo person for giving African literature a voice. This culture of entitlement, of privilege is getting annoying. Left to our African intellectuals, our stories would be decaying like our "universities." I said it, if you don't like what I said, sue me. Nonsense *sips wine* *cycles away slowly*- IkhideStalk my blog at www.xokigbo.comFollow me on Twitter: @ikhideJoin me on Facebook: www.facebook.com/ikhide
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