I fully understand the not knowing African literature. I just started reading it myself. I think/believe that these are the effects of colonisation. The being denied the opportunity to bloom into mastery of this amazing field. We read Sydney Sheldon and others growing up because it is what was available.
The few African authors I read are local and because they lacked poetic and erotic stuff, I never revisited. I am ashamed to know that there were people I would have read then but then again, books are expensive.
I look forward to getting myself where you are. A place of total freedom in terms of submitting my work. For the moment tho, I will continue with the how to write lessons :)
This is truth, the books available to us are mostly foreign authors and indeed books are expensive.
I am still on the journey of learning. It is the only way to be better and to find the voice I so much desire. I still get the impostor syndrome whenever I submit a piece. It's a process of self validation.
The lessons is the beginning. After all, just three years ago, I could only post on my Facebook wall.