As some of you know I not using social media for at least 6 months. Instead I'm using other websites to help promote my content.
So for this list I ran a Google search to find articles and other lists on other websites where I might be able to share a link to my page.
During my search it was interesting to discover so many articles on the issue of African writers who feel they are the flavor of the day. It was interesting because I noticed this trend myself. here in US, African authors dominate disproportionately book deals and the media's attention in general relative to Black writers.
However the same was true for the media's outsized focus on Urban fiction before that African writers, and chicklet before Urban fiction...
The attention paid to Black writers goes through ups and downs the sad part is that black people control none of these trends we rely solely upon white corporate media media and we react accordingly.
When was the last time you read an article about Urban fiction? With the exception Ray Brown's Good2go publishing https://aalbc.com/authors/imprint.php?imprint=Good2go+Publishing there is no urban fiction promotion here. It is not like the readers of the genre went away all of a sudden, they are just ignored.
And we can't do anything about it...at least right now.