AFRICAN LITERATURE

CHARACTERISTICS

Polyrhythmic

- African music featured complex, interlocking, and contrasting rhythms that are achieved
by striking bells, clapping hands, beating drums, and stomping feats

Call and response

- The act of having a chorus repeat a lead singer’s words in response.

African ritualistic dances

- Primitive African people love to perform ritualistic dances. These dances are often
witnessed in important occasions like the ff.

African literature

- Oral in nature and has to be recited and even performed

- Not accessed through books but through storytellers

African prose

- Writing is continuous yet systematic

- Prose best reflects the organized mind, which is evident in stories and essays
- Prose is often, used to narrate social memories
- The plot of animal narratives usually focuses on large animals
- Attacker that tries to deceive its rescuer or savior
- Features many literary devices
- Used literary devices are parallelism, personification, metaphor, alliteration and rhyme

Countries

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