Adewale Maja-Pearce writing in the NYTimes:
More hereThe work of a new generation of Nigerian writers has grown inward-looking and politically remote, the inversion of the Nobel Laureate Wole Soyinka’s much-quoted admonition, “The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.” It’s not that the writers of today are afraid to address the problems that plague our country — they do so with eloquence and compassion. But there is more gloom than hope in their writing. Their work is weighed down by a despair that stems from the fact that the people most in need of reading what they have to say are paying little or no attention.
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