I don’t feel like anybody’s father … And I also know that, a matter of common sense, if you make large claims, you also draw resentment. So I prefer to go about like every other person, every other writer, without a special title.
— Chinua Achebe on being called the father of contemporary African literature
View Larger Also reading Search Sweet Country by Kojo Laing. I am trying to love the proper poetry of this one, but the pretty exhausts me. Beautiful, but the (recovering?) journalist in me just wants the writer to spit the truth clean out. I will finish it, though, because I rarely read any contemporary African authors. Also hoping to visit Ghana in August, so there’s that.
