ETYMOLOGY of AFRICA

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AFRICA TERRA – Land of the afri
AFRI(Plural)
AFER(Singular)
AFER May be from:
PHOENICIAN AFAR – Meaning dust
or
AFRIDI – Tribe of northern africa
 ETYMOLOGY
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GREEK APHRIKE –
Meaning without cold or
LATIN APRICA – Meaning
sunny
And later became Africa
 INTRODUCTION
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AFRICA – 2nd largest continent next to
Asia
It covers more than ONE – FIFTH Of all
the earth’s surface
It comprises 46 COUNTRIES
AND TERRITORIES
 INTRODUCTION
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SUEZ CANAL, THE GULF OF SUEZ AND THE RED
SEA – Separate Africa from Asia
 SRAITS OF GIBRALTAR ANDMEDITERRANEAN
SEA – Separate Africa from Europe
 ATLANTIC OCEAN –West
 INDIAN OCEAN -East
 LANGUAGES
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FIVE MAJOR LANGUAGES:
1. Afroasiastic languages
2. Click languages
3. Niger – congo languages
4. Sudanic languages
5. Austronesian languages
 RELIGION
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ISLAM – Dominant
religion of northern
Africa
It replaced Christianity in the
17th century
 EDUCATION
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LITERARY RATES FOR MEN Are
higher than women
URBAN EDUCATION Are higher than
rural education
RICHEST Countries invest more than
poorest countries in terms of education
Only a small fraction of afica’ s young
people attend universities
 AFRICAN LITERATURE
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It includes ORAL LITERATURE
They called it as ORATURE
ORATURE – Was coined by PIO ZIRIMU
PIO ZIRIMU – Ugandan scholar
 AFRICAN LITERATURE
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PROSE – Mythological or
historical, written or spoken
language

CALL-AND RESPONSE –
Spontaneous verbal and
non-verbal interaction
between the speaker and
the listener
 PRE-COLONIAL LITERATURE
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EPIC OF SUNDIATA –
Composed in medieval Mali

EPIC OF DINGA – From Old

Ghana empire
 PRE-COLONIAL LITERATURE
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KEBRA NAGAST OR THE BOOK
OF KINGS – The best known work
in this tradition

TRICKSTER STORY – One of the popular

form of traditional African folktale
 COLONIAL LITERATURE
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JOSEPH EPHRAIM CASELY
HAYFORD – Published the
1st African novel written in
English
ETHIOPIA UNBOUND –
1st African novel written in
English
 COLONIAL LITERATURE
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HERBERT ISAAC ERNEST
DHLOMO– Published 1st
English- language
African play

THE GIRL WHO LIKED TO SAVE – 1st

English-language African play
 COLONIAL LITERATURE
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NGUGI WA THIONG’O – Wrote
1st east African drama

BLACK HERMIT – 1st east

African drama
 COLONIAL LITERATURE
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 THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE –
Receive significant worldwide critical acclaim
 COLONIAL LITERATURE
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LEOPOID SEDAR SENGHOR –
President of Senegal published the
1st anthology of French language poetry

ANTHOLOGY OF THE NEW BLACK

AND MALAGASY POETRY IN THE
FRENCH LANGUAGE – 1st anthology of French
language poetry
 POST-COLONIAL LIT
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ALI A. MAZRUI – Mention 7 CONFLICTS As
THEMES:
- The clash between Africa's past and present
- Between tradition and modernity
- Between individualism and community
- Between socialism and capitalism
- Between development and self-reliance
- Between Africanity and humanity
AFRICAN RITERS AND POETS
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WOLE SOYINKA (JULY 13,
1934 IN NIGERIA)
- Foremost ENGLISH
LANGUAGE POET
- He won the NOBEL PRIZE
FOR LITERATUREIN 1986
- 1ST AFRICAN WRITER Who
won the novel prize for
literature in 1986
 AFRICAN RITERS AND POETS
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- The 2ND AFRICAN WRITER Winner of the
novel Prize was NADINE GORDIMER In
19991
- 1ST PLAY: The swamp dwellers.
- OTHER PLAYS: Death and the king’s horse
man, opera wonyosi and play of giants.
AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

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CHINUA ACHEBE
- Nigerian novelist and
poet
- His 1st novel was
entitled THINGS FALL
APART
- He has been co-editor of
okike
 AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

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- OKIKE (Was of Africa's most influential
literary magazines)
- Other works: THE ARROW OF GOD, A
MAN OF THE PEOPLE, GIRLS AT
WAR, CHRISTMAS IN BIAFRA AND
OTHER POEMS
AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS
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JOHN PEPPER CLARK
- Nigerian poet, dramatist, and
literary critic
- Born: APRIL 6, 1935
- Plays: OZIDI AND SONG
OF GOAT
- Representative of his poetry
was the volume, A DEVADE
OF TONGUES.
 AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS
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NGUGI WA THIONG’O
-Born: JANUARY 5, 1938
IN KENYA
-The most important east
African novelist
- 1st two novels: WEEP NOT, CHILD
AND THE RIVER BETWEEN