African writers must stop relying on western publishing houses for validation and publication. The responsibility to publish and promote our literature lies with us. We must publish in spite of understatement, cultural differences, prejudice or financial odds.
We cannot continue depending on BBC, CNN, or Al Jazeera for world news, where is the African equivalent of the same?. We cannot rely on English common law for jurisprudence and precedents, we must develop our own. We cannot consume only western finished products, yet we have the resources. We cannot accept eurocentric academic dogma/indoctrination while ignoring afrocentrism and Ubuntu ideology. And we cannot, at the same time, neglect the publication and dissemination of our own literature.
African existing publishing houses must be strengthened and protected not threatened by governments. The western world is not fair to us, and fairness will not be handed to us.
Governments must be compelled to act. A reading culture must be emphasised. Public libraries must be established in every parish instead of colonial shrines. Education budgets must prioritize these facilities as a matter of policy.
Pan-Africanism is meaningless if it remains only rhetoric on the lips of pig-headed politicians. The ideology must be institutionalised. If we continue to talk while our children inherit the same stagnant slogans and positions, then we have betrayed them. Action, not words, will define whether Pan-Africanism survives.
@KakwenzaRukira Most of the Kampala dwellers would disagree because they think they attained knowledge and are earning but great minds like hers, yours and mine see through walls and can ascertain this mindset