David Olusoga – how not to talk about African literature
David Olusoga is a well-known British presenter cum historian. But he is a problem. There needs to be some serious analysis. The immediate issue is his show ‘Africa Turns the Page’. As a history of African literature this is a disaster. He has neither a historical understanding nor literary understanding. When he talks about the history of a period there is no sense of time and place in his narrative. His basic temporality is all upside down making Soyinka…