Garden City Literary Festival panel

       Vanguard has a transcript of a recent Garden City Literary Festival panel
       Kind of all over the place but with interesting titbits -- such as:

Electricity is my biggest challenge in Nigeria, particularly at night. There are also the challenges of the publishing industry. But I also see a kind of renaissance in African fiction. Nigeria/ Africa are reading again. This is one of the continents to watch.

       Or, for example, Doreen Baingana observes: "I find that it is more difficult for me to make a living as a writer in Uganda than it would be in USA."
       And one participant suggests:

young people should be encouraged to read, not by just preaching to them, but by making the books available and having functional school libraries.