"The Western media is in consensus that Africa is a dark continent and Zimbabwe is a trouble spot.
Stories about local achievements and authentic African aspirations always get overlooked while Africa is only a synonym of war, poverty and civil unrest going by the lenses of Fox, CNN and BBC.
This is apparently the same criterion when it comes to the literature which excites the West.
Reviews of "We Need New Names" in the papers were more politically themed than artistically contrived, giving the impression that Western papers never miss a chance to adopt a first-hand endorsement of its mean view of Africa."
- Stanely Mushava
Stories about local achievements and authentic African aspirations always get overlooked while Africa is only a synonym of war, poverty and civil unrest going by the lenses of Fox, CNN and BBC.
This is apparently the same criterion when it comes to the literature which excites the West.
Reviews of "We Need New Names" in the papers were more politically themed than artistically contrived, giving the impression that Western papers never miss a chance to adopt a first-hand endorsement of its mean view of Africa."
- Stanely Mushava
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*
"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*
- Ikhide
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