Posted by: afrowrite on: October 25, 2009
While Africa’s great writers Chinua Achebe and Ngugi wa Thiong’o, both teaching in US universities, fight over whether African writers should use English or African language, the writer in Africa is busy explaining the continent to world in English.
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Posted by: afrowrite on: October 3, 2009
Discouraged Kenyans had already begun to believe Mr. Barack Obama, the American President with Kenyan roots, would abandon his fatherland. Now many of them are rejoicing, if TV and radio phone-in calls are anything to go by.
