THRILLS AND SPILLS
It is a fallacy that fewer Africans are writing ... or reading... these days....Actually large numbers of new books come out now even in Africa regularly It is just that reading is becoming elitist as it were, as few people can afford to buy new books in our continent. But check out newspapers etc and you see new books being reviewed there on a regular basis . Newspapers? Yes, how many people do we see reading or buying even them these days? It is part of the financial problems in the continent now. It is particularly depressing to see so many well educated people, who love information, simply unable to buy papers on a regular basis. So how would they even think of books? Nostalgia thus becomes a great thing. The older people in society will recollect how they used to buy new books on a regular basis, point out how they had very large personal libraries in the past, how they always bought the latest (or reprinted) editions of James Hadley Chase, Nick Carter, Agatha C...