"African literature" what they mean is poetry plays and narrative written by Africans in English and French and perhaps Portuguese
African literature in general can be divided into three basic categories: precolonial literature colonial literature and postcolonial literature Many
The course has sixteen units which cover important topics in African literature and gender such as African culture and literature African drama in French and
What these examples clearly show is that African literature as now understood and practised is merely a minor appendage in the main stream of European
CULTURAL DIPLOMACY IN AFRICAN WRITING Mbella Sonne Dipoko THE DECOLONIZATION OF AFRICAN LITERATURE Eldred Jones From the discussion:
for studying African fiction Through the themes of mobility and labour this chapter addresses the question of political agency in African literatures in
New West African Literature KOLAWOLE OGUNGBESAN The Novel in Africa 5 questions of culture and education to those of language literature and
Or in the literary sphere they were often seen as coming to save African languages against themselves Writing a foreword to Birago Diop's book Contes D'Amadou
In order to treat African indigenous literature in its own right our main focus of attention should be on the established cultural traditions and
The book was submitted to Nwamife Pu- blishers Enugu Nigeria They accepted it advertised in West Africa but did not publish it On the basis of certain