Nigeria: Writing Sets You Free

interview

Nairobi — Mr Helon Habila, a Nigerian novelist who won the first Caine Prize for African Writing was in Kampala to attend the African Writers Conference. He spoke to DAVID KAIZA about the future of writing on the continent

African writing has been seen in colonial terms. We have Franco-African writing and Anglo-African literature. How then can one talk of "African literature?"

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