The New Times (Kigali)
14 July 2008
The report, that the South African writer, Henrietta Rose-Innes has won this year's £10,000 Caine prize, for the best short story in English by an African writer, in the society pages of The New Times, a daily news-paper, was indeed good news.
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It is heartening to notice the revival of Africa's literature after the end of colonialism with the debut of icons like Chimanda Adichie and Helon Habila,but I must observe,even on pains of popular criticism and excoriation from pundits that,we Africans are a people without idea of what constitute a good literature until the whiteman's propaganda croons it in the parochial Eurocentric criteria of the Cain,Booker and almighty Nobel prizes! I am myself a budgeoning writer;my book,MORGAN V[Raider Publishing,New York,2008]had been condemned as a racist book but even if I were hailed in England and New York as a genius,which meant only that my views are acceptable to literary critics in the West,I donot pray to be accepted for consideration for all my works by the Cain or Booker establishment!And I should reject such prizes
hello am andrew and ofcourse rwandan,am commenting on this subject coz the rwandans should stop being what i can call voyers,lets stop over admiring and envying other peoples work and lets try and concentrate on the betterment of our own writing in otherwords lets try to cheer our country men on which might surprisingly yield better results than the ones we are currently getting.am an aspiring writer and will start my first book in november,hopefully when am done my book can lay a platform for the emergence of rwandan literature among the youth,because i think theres no better way to make rwandan literature sprint out without using the holders of a new renaissance,the youth.