Abayomi Awelewa, Lecturer in African and African Diasporan Literature, University of Lagos The Nigerian playwright, novelist, poet and essayist is a giant among his contemporaries. In 1986, he became the…
African writers being portrayed as icons isn’t new. The same became true of the revered “fathers” of canonical postcolonial African fiction, Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, for example.
Metaphors aren’t ironclad. It’s possible to consciously change the way we write, draw, design costumes—and, yes, bake.
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