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Contemporary African Writing or the Moments that Inspire Us

So I am not as active on this blog as I used to be. There is a good reason for that. I once used this blog to discuss ideas, hoping to trigger some writing of my own, and to rave about African literature, to feature all the new names in African writing, to bring awareness of the literature, to shout from the top of the mountain about all the wonderful things coming out of African literature. There was a real need for that; I felt African literature (if you believe it exists) needed that kind of help, needed to be announced, to be talked about, to be singled out, to be revealed. And what do you know, a few years later, the literature doesn't need me to do so; it does just fine by itself, announcing, and sometimes rejecting, itself. And the bigger media has taken over the coverage, and now I can just sit back and watch from a distance, right? No. I will continue to feature things about world writing here: who has written what (and why? or why not?); who has gotten a book deal, who