V.S. Naipaul,Chinua Achebe,Nobel Literature Prizes and African Writers as Cats,Dogs and Chameleons

Abstract

Taban lo Liyong sent this comment on the award of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Literature to V.S. Naipaul, after reading’s the Journal’s Editorial on the subject (JCL 37, 1). It was, however, written prior to this and so bears no direct relationship to that Editorial. Nevertheless we hope it complements it as an African response to “Naipaul’s Nobel”.