Then again, who is an expert? Those who offer opinions? Well my favorite writers are Laye and Ngugi! My reason is very simple indeed. As a boy coming into my own, I enjoyed African Child and Weep Not Child. Now you realize that I shifted the goalposts from Achebe and Soyinka to Laye and Ngugi!
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I detest the so-called experts not versed in African Literature and are shunning out ideas on the issue. African lit encompasses Oral literature, writers from all over the CONTINENT, etc.
African Literature is not ONLY about Teju Cole, Taiye Selasi, NoViolet Bulawayo, Chimamanda Adichie, etc, African literature includes Helen Oyeyemi, Aminatta Forna, Dinah Mengestu, Alain Mabackou, Assia Djebar, Mariama Ba, Oyono, Ngugi Wa Thiong''o, and more from all over the CONTINENT.
We should avoid living in a bowl.
Funmi Tofowomo Okelola
-In the absence of greatness, mediocrity thrives.
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