"Black and African writing does need freedom. It needs freedom from the repetition of tired complaints and the issuing of dusty and ineffective prescriptions. After all, as Okri begins his essay, "Living as we do in troubling times, we look to writers to reflect the temper of the age" – and that is precisely what black and African writers are doing. Our literature doesn't need better writers; it needs better readers."
- Sofia Samatar
SMH. Appalling retort to Okri's piece. This is the kind of arrogance that has turned off millions of readers from "literary" works. Nonsense.
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