I think that the issues around cultural appropriation are difficult, but also run the risk of becoming issues of cultural policing. The risk is that everyone ends up becoming stuck in their own ghetto, which is entirely contrary to the purpose of art and writing. If this happens, can only Africans write about the experience of Africans and nothing else? Can white people write only about other whites, or only about their particular group, and never have the legitimacy to imagine themselves as someone else? The dangers involved in policing CA are, I believe, far greater than leaving people alone to imagine themselves in the skin/cultures and experiences of other people who are not like them.