Shammah Godoz

I truly pity emerging writers from the continent, for they have always been the orphans of literature. I have been there, as have many of us. Our governments don’t care about art. All they want to do is loot and loot and loot. The foreign and domestic organizations that claim they want to save our art most times want to be saviors without an ounce of backbone. The writers, those among us who have made it, want to be worshipped as gatekeepers and geniuses. And so we are left to apply to foreign schools, to do anything to save our art, knowing that we will never be protected. I truly bless people like Troy, who have continued to create spaces for writers. I read that Caine whatever. I have promised myself not to say anything about it. We are truly fucked. So try and save yourself, because there is nothing about our literary community that will come and save you.