In Will the pro-poor writers please stand up in The Herald (Zimbabwe) Stanely Mushava argues:
With the elites preoccupied with petty cross-aggrandisement, writers must step up the podium on behalf of the masses. African literature must be remastered to make the continent a povo-friendly space.He sees the globally-trendy inequality-debate as one of great regional importance, too:
Writers must foreground on their taskbars the reconfiguration of Africa into a more habitable space for the poor who saddle the brunt of uneven development, misappropriation of resources and municipal dysfunction.Not sure the writers (or the local publishing-conditions) are entirely up to it, but I wouldn't mind seeing some of this.