We are the product of colonialism but more than this are also the sum total of our African ancestors who passed on a strong culture and tradition.
African Britishness – on Literature
It is hardly news that literature exposes readers to the culture and history of a people. Most of my life I have read and respected English literature and only came to know African Literature in my late teens. Not surprisingly Chinua Achebe says, “Until the lions have their own historians, the history of the hunt will always glorify the hunter.”