Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The contine… - Binyavanga Wainaina

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Africa is big: fifty-four countries, 900 million people who are too busy starving and dying and warring and emigrating to read your book. The continent is full of deserts, jungles, highlands, savannahs and many other things, but your reader doesn’t care about all that, so keep your descriptions romantic and evocative and unparticular.