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    This document provides an overview of African literature. It discusses the major languages spoken in Africa, the dominant religions, and levels of education across the continent. It then outlines the history and evolution of African literature, including oral traditions, pre-colonial epics, works from the colonial period when European languages were adopted, and post-colonial literature after independence. Several prominent African writers are also mentioned, such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and John Pepper Clark.

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    AFRICAN

    LITERATURE
    INTRODUCTION

    AFRICA – 2nd largest continent next to
    Asia
    It covers more than ONE – FIFTH Of all
    the earth’s surface
    It comprises 46 COUNTRIES

    SUEZ CANAL, THE GULF OF SUEZ AND THE RED
    SEA – Separate Africa from Asia
    SRAITS OF GIBRALTAR AND MEDITERRANEAN
    SEA – Separate Africa from Europe
    ATLANTIC OCEAN – West
    INDIAN OCEAN - East
    LANGUAGES

    FIVE MAJOR LANGUAGES:


    1. Afroasiastic languages
    2. Click languages
    3. Niger – congo languages
    4. Sudanic languages
    5. Austronesian languages
    RELIGION

    ISLAM – dominant religion of
    northern Africa

    It replaced Christianity in the 17th


    century
    EDUCATION

    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 Africa’ s young
    AFRICAN LITERATURE

    It includes ORAL LITERATURE
    They called it as ORATURE
    ORATURE – Was coined by PIO ZIRIMU
    PIO ZIRIMU – Ugandan scholar
    AFRICAN LITERATURE

    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

    EPIC OF SUNDIATA –
    Composed in medieval Mali

    EPIC OF DINGA – From Old


    Ghana empire
    PRE-COLONIAL LITERATURE

    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

    JOSEPH EPHRAIM CASELY
    HAYFORD – Published the
    1st African novel written in
    English
    ETHIOPIA UNBOUND –
    1st African novel written in
    English
    COLONIAL LITERATURE

    HERBERT ISAAC ERNEST
    DHLOMO– Published 1st
    English- language
    African play

    THE GIRL WHO LIKED TO SAVE – 1st


    English-language African play
    COLONIAL LITERATURE

    NGUGI WA THIONG’O – Wrote
    1st east African drama

    BLACK HERMIT – 1st east


    African drama
    COLONIAL LITERATURE

    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

    ALI A. MAZRUI – Mention 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
    AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

    WOLE SOYINKA (JULY 13,
    1934 IN NIGERIA)
    - Foremost ENGLISH
    LANGUAGE
    POET
    - He won the NOBEL PRIZE
    FOR LITERATURE IN
    1986
    - 1ST AFRICAN WRITER
    Who
    won the Nobel Prize
    AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

    - The 2ND AFRICAN WRITER Winner of the
    Nobel Prize was NADINE GORDIMER In
    1991
    - 1ST PLAY: The swamp dwellers.
    - OTHER PLAYS: Death and the king’s horse
    man, opera wonyosi and play of giants.
    AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS


    CHINUA ACHEBE
    - Nigerian novelist and
    poet
    - His 1st novel was
    entitled THINGS FALL
    APART
    - He has been co-editor of
    okike
    COLONIAL LITERATURE

    THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE –
    Receive significant worldwide critical acclaim
    AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS


    - 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

    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

    NGUGI WA THIONG’O
    -Born: JANUARY 5, 1938
    IN KENYA
    -The most important east
    African novelist
    - 1st two novels: WEEP NOT, CHILD

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