Because all I had read were books in which characters were foreign, I had become convinced that books by their very nature had to have foreigners in them and had to be about things with which I could not personally identify.
저는 자연스럽게 책이란 것은 당연히 주인공은 외국인이어야 하며 내가 직접 경험하지 못한 것에 관한 내용이어야 한다고 믿게 되었습니다. 아프리카 작가들의 책을 읽으면서 상황은 바뀌었습니다.