My close friend Mercy, when she heard about my novel, congratulated me: I had found out "what the white people wanted to read and given it to them."
Mercy had a point. The idea for my book may have been independently inspired, but the approval of "white people" was crucial. Success for an African writer still depends on the West..............
Link: http://www.nytimes.com/2014/11/30/opinion/sunday/african-books-for-western-eyes.html
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