What literary desert? It’s a book jungle out there!
Kimani Njogu addresses participants at the KWANI? Litfest 2010 in December. Photo/PHOEBE OKALL
I was recently watching – on Youtube – a clip of celebrations facilitated by the Library of Congress in Washington DC, a couple of years ago, to mark the 70th birthday of a man I have come to consider the chief priest of African literature, Chinua Achebe.
In the clip, Achebe, after reading excerpts from his first published novel, Things Fall Apart (1958), is asked whether he shared his work with anyone before presenting it for publication.
