On Not Copying Ethnocentrism

This piece from the East African seems to be about the call for African writers to transcend their narrow boundaries until one realizes that what it calls for - that African writers ridicule the mores of the West just as the West ridiculed ours - is, to say the least, simply stupid. Of the many productive things that African writers can do, it seems strange that a serious writer would see ridiculing others as a top priority. Why should we condemn th ethnocentrism of the West only to turn around and do the same thing? To say that Africans have not critiqued the ways of the West is to overstate the case, ignoring works such as Cheikh Hamidou Kane' Ambiguous Adventure, among others.