Literary Agents

In a recent article Mukoma wa Ngugi (author of Nairobi Heat) spoke about a lack of serious literary agents and publishers in Africa. "A good number of us are working with Western literary agents who are familiar mostly with Western publishers. This in turn means that they are likely to represent books that will be assured a Western audience. This means that there are good books that have Africans as their primary audience that are not being published. But in the absence of viable publishing in most African countries, even African literary agents would have a problem."

Who are the literary agents currently working with writers on the continent? What do they looking for? How are they shaping writing in Africa?