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ENG 417

POSTCOLONIAL AFRICAN LITERATURE

Course Team

Course Developer/Writers: Dr. Felix Gbenoba & Fidelis Okoroegbe

Directorate of Instructional Resources

Development,

National Open University of Nigeria

Course Editor: Professor Ayo Kehinde

Department of English

University of Ibadan

Course Coordinator: Dr. Felix Gbenoba

Department of Languages

Faculty of Arts

National Open University of Nigeria

Jabi, Abuja.

COURSE

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CONTENTS PAGE

Introduction.............................................................. iv Course Aims............................................................. iv Course Objectives................................................... v Working through the Course.................................... vi Course Materials..................................................... vi Study Units............................................................ vi Textbooks and References........................................ vii Assignment File....................................................... ix Tutor-Marked Assignment........................................ x Final Examination and Grading................................ xi Course Marking Scheme.......................................... xi How to Get the Most from this Course..................... xi Tutors and Tutorials................................................. xiii Summary............................................................... xiv 4

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to ENG 417: Postcolonial African Literature. It is a three- credit unit course for 400 level students in the Department of English. It comprises 19 study units subdivided into four modules. The course is meant to acquaint students with the nature of post-colonial African literature and its application to the whole range of the literary output across Africa since the end of the colonisation of the peoples. The course is diachronic even though the subject matters of the writers are not necessarily the same. In this wise, one could safely call the whole period since the 1950s on the African continent postcolonial as many of the peoples of Africa actually got their deliverance from colonial rule mostly from this period onwards. It is also historically known that the colonial period actually ceased from about the middle of the 20th Century. Literatures of the peoples of the world thus got into the post-colonial era since the stated period. Thus, at the end of the course, students would be exposed to literatures that were presented to the public within this diachronic period. Furthermore, this course aims to engage students in a dialogue on the intercultural encounters inevitable in the reading and analysis of the African literature. The course will prove an exciting journey to and through the thinking and life of the African people as you hear and read the texts of postcolonial African writings. It seeks to show that African literature is not a homogenous whole, rather, it exists where national and ethnic cultures are in reality enormously varied. It also actively connects with issues that are intimately influenced by the socio-cultural and political conditions of Africa. The course will develop as consistently as possible a discussion on the theory and issues that inform and affect African literature.

COURSE AIMS

This course introduces you to the colonial and postcolonial African literature and theory. Generally, the course tackles, probably, one of the writings. In this course, we shall study some of the proponents of postcolonial theory. We will also use a selection of some African texts to examine the nature of the postcolonial as well as what the term JOREDOLVHGZRUOGLQZKLFKquotesdbs_dbs48.pdfusesText_48

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