How to Be a Great African Writer by Elsie Eyakuze

There is an argument out there that the category ‘African Writer’ should not exist because it creates a ghetto in which people get incarcerated by accident of birth or residence. I have heard this many times, in conversations that cover complex and controversial ‘identities’ (Indian, Asian, Latin), in literary salons hosted by artsy friends that call themselves anything but literary salons.

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