What Does It Take to Change a Narrative?

As a young African kid or the child of immigrants, I think there's so many things about misperceptions of where I'm from. You have seen narrative shift as people who have traditionally been locked out of spaces that create or generate those narratives are able to step in and control the creation of those stories. Chinua Achepe did it when he started the African Writers Series. He was like, okay, so my book got published,. but I can't stop there. It's not just about my story; it's all these other individuals too. How many young writers do we benefit from today? We're getting a much fuller picture of the struggles and of the joys and of