AFRICA

LITERATURE

Reporting
21st Century
Literature
TEAM
BAGANI
Atienza Ericka
Divinaflor Mark Thomas Bautista Christine Joy
Obispo Rose Marie
Duran Vincent
Maderazo Jaycel
Endozo Jason Marcial Bea
Icaro Ryan Joshua Mendoza Maria Alyza
Ramirez Christine Kayth
Pineda Dianne
 Africa
Continent

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous

continent. At about 30.3 million km² including adjacent
islands, it covers 6% of Earth's total surface area and 20% of
its land area.

Area: 30.37 million km²
Population  : 1.216 billion (2016)
GDP (Nominal) : $2.19 trillion (2017; 5th)
Largest City : Lagos
Did You Know :Africa is the second-most-populous continent
(1,216,130,000) in the world
History
African history is a massive and intricate subject, world-
s­haking events have shaped the continent’s history, from
the early men and women who left their footsteps in
volcanic ash to the liberation of Nelson Mandela, and a
whole lot of wars, conquests, civilisations and
revolutions in between
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African Literature
The body of traditional oral and written literatures in Afro-Asiatic and
African languages together with works written by Africans in European
languages. Traditional written literature, which is limited to a smaller
geographic area than is Oral Literature. 

Oral Literature in Africa: Was first published in 1970, and since

then has been widely praised as one of the most important
books in its field.
 Oral Traditions
The nature of storytelling
The riddle
The lyric
The proverb
The tale
Heroic poetry
The epic
 African Empires

Victorian missionaries liked to think they were bringing the beacon

of ‘civilisation’ to the ‘savages’ of Africa, but the truth is that
Africans were developing commercial empires and complex urban
societies while Europeans were still running after wildlife with
clubs. Many of these civilisations were small and short-lived, but
others were truly great, with influence that reached far beyond
Africa and into Asia and Europe

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The Kingdom of Sheba

Aksum: Was the first truly African indigenous state no conquerors from elsewhere
arrived to start this legendary kingdom.

 Sudan: Southern Arabia at the height of its powers

 Egypt: The eastern Mediterranean and Arabia, developed a written language,

produced gold coins and built imposing stone buildings. In the third century
AD, the Aksumite king converted to Christianity, founding the Ethiopian
Orthodox church
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 Egypt: The eastern Mediterranean developed a written language, produced
gold coins and built imposing stone buildings. In the third century AD, the
Aksumite king converted to Christianity

 Ethiopia: Was the home of the fabled Queen of Sheba and the last resting
place of the mysterious Ark of the Covenant

Aksum: Also captured the imagination of medieval Europeans, who told tales

of a legendary Christian king named ‘Prester John’ who ruled over a race of
white people deep in darkest Africa

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 Human origins & Migrations
You’ve probably heard the claim that Africa is ‘the birthplace of humanity’. But
before there were humans, or even apes, or even ape ancestors, there was...rock.
Africa is the oldest and most enduring landmass in the world. When you stand
on African soil, 97% of what’s under your feet has been in place for more than
300 million years. During that time, Africa has seen pretty much everything –
from proto-bacteria to dinosaurs and finally, around five to 10 million years ago,
a special kind of ape called Australopithecines, that branched off (or rather let
go of the branch), and walked on two legs down a separate evolutionary track .
This radical move led to the development of various hairy, dim-witted hominids
(early men)
Homo Habilis around 2.4 million years ago
Homo Erectus some 1.8 million years ago and finally 
Homo Sapiens (modern humans) around 200,000 years ago. Around 50,000 years

The break from Africa into the wider world occurred around 100,000 years ago,
when a group numbering perhaps as few as 50 people migrated out of North Africa,
along the shores of the Mediterranean and into the Middle East.
 Pyramids of Power

Arguably the greatest of the African empires was the first: Ancient Egypt. Formed through an
amalgamation of already organised states in the Nile Delta around 3100 BC.  

Many of these, like the Pyramids of Giza, are still standing today. During the good times,
which lasted nearly 3000 years, Egyptians discovered the principals of mathematics and
astronomy, invented a written language and mined gold. Ancient Egypt was eventually
overrun by the Nubian Empire, then by the Assyrians, Persians, Alexander the Great and
finally the Romans. The Nubians retained control of a great swathe of the Lower Nile
Valley, despite getting a spanking from the Ethiopian empire of Aksum around AD 500.
 Hannibal’s homeland

By the 6th century BC, Carthage controlled much of the local sea trade, their ships
sailing to and from the Mediterranean ports laden with cargos of dye, cedar wood and
precious metals. Back on land, scholars were busy inventing the Phoenician alphabet,
from which Greek, Hebrew and Latin letters are all thought to derive. All this came to an
abrupt end with the arrival of the Romans, who razed Carthage to the ground (despite the
best efforts of the mighty warrior Hannibal, Carthage’s most celebrated son) and
enslaved its population in 146 BC. A host of foreign armies swept across North Africa in
the succeeding centuries, but it was the Arabs who had a lasting impact, introducing
Islam around AD 670
4 African
Literature and
Books
 Gender Discourse, Religious Values, and the African Worldview
by Safoura A. Salami-Boukari

African Literature: Gender Discourse, Religious Values, and the

African Worldview offers a series of fresh insights into most of
the old "problematics" which used to sustain the
interpretations of African literature, especially by women.
Students, scholars, and general readers wishing to consider
issues of gender in relation to African cultural and
socioeconomic systems and what Salami-Boukari
interrogates and names as an "African worldview," will find
the interdisciplinary discussion of historical analyses,
literary criticism and gender discourses a useful method for
engaging contemporary African perspectives.

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 ACACIA
by Tendai Machingaidze

Acacia, just like the famous tree in Africa she’s

named after, is a strong and resilient kind of
woman. She’s had such an eventful lifetime that
she decides to write a book about it.  It is from her
narrative that we learn all about her life, her search
for fulfillment, her achievements and struggles as a
young African American woman

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 SHE SEIZED THE BALLS
by Alobwed’Epie
IN TWO OR THREE
COLUMNS
In She Seized The Balls, Ntube's exploits can best be
Yellow
described as guided by the hand of providence. In a bid
Is the color of gold,
butter and ripe lemons. In to inherit her father's compound and live comfortably,
the spectrum of visible
light, yellow is found she destroys the old sacred village grove and fells
between green and
orange. totemic trees. An epidemic breaks out, killing mostly
the elderly. Ntube is accused of causing it because of
the destruction of the sacred places.
.

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 TALE OF AN AFRICAN WOMAN
by Thomas Jing

The village of Yakiri has been cursed by ancestral wrath

because of the treatment of Yaa, the first girl who wrestled
her male goatherd peers to earn the right to be initiated into
the society of manhood. Her struggle is taken up
generations later by Yaya, the granddaughter of Tafan and
Wirba. Orphaned like her forebear, Yaya becomes a star
student in the village's primary school and promises to go
far. educated woman will abandon the farm where she is
needed, wear high heels and try to order men around! In the
midst of it all, one Irish missionary, living in Africa and for
the most time with Africans, literally wiggles his way into
hearts and minds.
 5 Famous
Writer /Novelist/
Author
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in Africa
Chinua Achebe
Nigerian novelist

Chinua Achebe was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor,

and critic. His first novel Things Fall Apart, often
considered his best, is the most widely read book in
modern African literature. He won the Man Booker
International Prize in 2007

Born: 16 November 1930, Ogidi, Anambra, Nigeria

Died: 21 March 2013, Boston, Massachusetts, United
States
Awards: Man Booker International Prize, MORE
Education: University of London International
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Programmes, MORE
Nadine Gordimer
South African writer

Nadine Gordimer was a South African writer, political

activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in
Literature.

Born: 20 November 1923, Springs, South Africa

Died: 13 July 2014, Johannesburg, South Africa
Awards: Nobel Prize in Literature, Booker
Prize, MORE
Movies: Regarding Susan Sontag, The House Gun
Bessie Head
Writer

Bessie Amelia Emery Head, known as Bessie Head,

though born in South Africa, is usually considered
Botswana's most influential writer. She wrote novels,
short fiction and autobiographical works.

Born: 6 July 1937, South Africa

Died: 17 April 1986, Serowe, Botswana
Spouse: Harold Head (m. 1961–1964)
Parents: Bessie Amelia Emery
Children: Howard Head
Buchi Emecheta
Nigerian novelist

Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE was a

Nigerian-born British novelist, based in the UK
from 1962, who also wrote plays and
autobiography, as well as work for children.

Born: 21 July 1944, Lagos, Nigeria

Died: 25 January 2017, London, United Kingdom
Spouse: Sylvester Onwordi (m. 1960)
Nuruddin Farah
Somali Novelist
Nuruddin Farah is a Somali novelist. He has also written
plays both for stage and radio, as well as short stories and
essays.

Born: 24 November 1945 (age 72 years), Baidoa, Somalia

Spouse: Chitra Muliyil (m. 1970)
Award: Neustadt International Prize for Literature
Education: Panjab University, Chandigarh
Nominations: NAACP Image Award for Outstanding
Literary Work, Fiction
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