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It never occurred to me in my mind as an African I could actually get published and be on the shelves like those people

— Hawa Jande Golakai

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I can do something positive that can prompt people to say: ‘Oh, so this is a Liberian author

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A lot of people want to categorise you when you’re writing crime fiction [as an African] – ‘Which part of Africa are you writing about

In all the books that Cassava is promoting, they can see that this is not ‘Africa

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