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[busker]

@River - having read Achebe, the unintentional wonder Amos Tutuola, and the new writer Ngozi Adiche, I think it’s quite unfortunate that the genius of Nigerian literature is relatively unknown. I like Achebe quite as much as I love Dostoevsky.

Your remark on patronising descriptions made me think about my unconscious biases for a moment. Whether the othering of the savage is inevitable is a question worth of discussion, perhaps in a separate thread.

Thanks for your thought provoking crit