Uganda, April 27 -- Goretti Kyomuhendo's book The Essential Handbook for African Creative Writers is, as the Foreword by Prof. Arthur Shatto Gakwandi says, in not so many words, a sharing of the personal experiences of a novelist that may serve as lessons for emerging and established writers.

More pithily, it is part memoir and part toolkit, adds Prof.Michael Cawood Green in the book's introduction.

First of all, let us get our facts straight: this Writers' Guide is essentially for African creative writers, but its lessons apply to those non-African writers who wish to communicate with an African audience or communicate the African experience to a non-African audience.

In order to crystallize this universally singular purpose, the auth...