Abstract
Before embarking on definitions of the African literary NGO (LINGO), a few remarks on the literary history of Uganda and Kenya might be helpful—particularly for the reader as yet unfamiliar with these Anglo-phone writing scenes. In this chapter, I therefore aim at giving insights into the literary and sociopolitical contexts against which African LINGOs, such as FEMRITE and Kwani Trust, need to be read in order to grasp more fully their present role and impact as institutions of literary creativity as well as institutions of sociopolitical intervention.
All writers are influenced by others. You can’t work in a vacuum.2
— Doreen Baingana (2008)
Dinesen, Out of Africa, 4
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For more information, please see Apollo Obonyo Amoko, Postcolonialism in the Wake of the Nairobi Revolution: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and the Idea of African Literature (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010).
Chris Wanjala, The Season of Harvest (Nairobi: Kenya Literature Bureau, 1978), 135.
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Strauhs, D. (2013). “The Landscape Had Not Its Like in All the World”. In: African Literary NGOs. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137330901_2
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