NDERITU: Buying a book? Make that by an African for Africans
Shoppers at a bookshop in Nairobi, Kenya, in January 2019. Few Africans remember reading children’s books written by African writers. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP
Ghana’s Deborah Ahenkorah received the 2019 Global Pluralism Award In Ottawa Canada on November 20.
Few Africans remember reading children’s books written by African writers. They remember reading and trying to relate to, for instance, a Rapunzel from the German fairy tale whose golden hair, unlike African hair, could grow so long as to be used as a staircase. Then there was Snow White and the Seven dwarfs. The word snow itself was puzzling. What was snow?
