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Africa: Is East Africa a literary desert?

Categories: Sub-Saharan Africa, Kenya, Literature

Are there writers in East Africa? [1]: “For many years we were made to believe that East Africa was a literary desert. Taban lo Liyong said it and regional publishers vindicated him. And they kept him vindicated for many years but we all knew it was an excuse to invest solely on text books.”