Post-Apartheid Fiction

I'm still reading this article (that's bad, I know) but wanted to pass it on. It's pretty eye-opening especially since so many writers complain about the publishing scene in the U.S. Consider the literary scene abroad. The NYT looks at post-apartheid fiction in South Africa. The article follows Niq Mhlongo, who is described as "is one of the most high-spirited and irreverent new voices of South Africa’s post-apartheid literary scene."

Check this out from the article:

Twelve years after the end of apartheid, the South African literary scene
remains as fragmented as ever, with writers exploring their own ethnic
experiences. Although more books are published than ever before, few create a
national conversation, in part because South Africa has been transformed from a
resistance culture to a consumer culture, where the novel is less vital.