Publishers should develop manual to guide works of aspiring authors

By ZAKAYO AMAYI 

Outspoken Sudanese writer, Taban lo Liyong, has repeatedly maintained that the East Africa region is a literary desert. His mind-boggling arguments could have been informed by the fact that the region which had once boasted of producing notable literary scholars the likes of the late Okot p’Bitek, foremost Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong’o, the late Owuor Anyumba, Taban lo Liyong himself had ceased to do so possibly for various reasons.