I celebrate Africa Day this week by appreciating African writers like Wole Soyinka, Es'kia Mphahlele, Bessie Head, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o, Nadine Gordimer and so forth. These writers for me add to the flavour of Africa, they season our rich culture which differs as tribes differ and yet is so much alike. How else would we have had a taste of the Yoruba culture, the rural South Africa and the beautiful traditions of our fellow Africans? How else? Television refuses to display the heart of the African warrior and the sacrifices he made for his people, it does not send across the scent of the rich Kenyan cuisine, it doesn't even try, but literature has brought us closer to the heart of our beautiful continent. If you want to know your fellow brothers and sisters a little more, experience African literature and allow yourself to be carried into a world of passion, battles, victories and love.
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