It’s ironic to run across this article from 2005 after just reading an op-ed in the NYT by Jeanne-Marie Jackson where she shows with plenty of examples that,
“Everyone is saying it: 2021 was the year for African literature. Writers from the continent scooped the Nobel, Booker, Goncourt and Camões prizes. And these honors — arguably the highest-sheen literary awards in the world — do not make up even half the list. The Neustadt, or “American Nobel,” and International Booker Prizes went to Senegalese writers, and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade to a Zimbabwean one.” [0]
[0] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/02/opinion/africa-fiction-no...