Rest in peace Botswana's self-publishing true story

Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah had this to say from the perspective of a writer resident in Africa at the dawn of creative writing works from the African continent.

'If you [the writer] set out to print anything on your own, the printing costs will stagger you.  If you manage to print, the distribution costs will blow your mind.  If you give your stuff to a local publisher, you will sympathise so much with their problems, you may not write again...So all our work...appears first to an audience which either regards us like some glass-enclosed specimen...or like an exotic weed to be sampled and made a conversation piece...or else we become some international organisation's pet'.