literature is also often categorized by language of expression ( anglophone, francophone, Hausa,
Cité 27 fois — late great Chinua Achebe, writing in 1965, concludes, “Any attempt to define African literature in terms
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ness in defining African literature along the Anglophone-Francophone linguistic di- vide reminiscent of colonial history Francophone African literature is
Defining African literature Abiola Irele writes: The term 'Africa' appears to of definition involves as well a consideration of aesthetic modes in.
But there was something which we tried to do and failed. -that was to define "African Literature" satisfactorily. Was it literature produced in Africa or about
a look at the African literature of today reveals a preoccupation with the events of the colonial era definition of criteria for African Literature » :.
isolation and fully formed but from the interaction between cultures. In the words of Amselle (i998: 33)
to any clearly worked out definition of Tragedy such that “African Modes of Self-. Writing” is in the end the excoriation of Africanist scholarship for
efforts to evolve an aesthetics for African literature have been largely misleading because of the inadequacy of the definition or description of African
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European critics of African literature one of the most defining fig- ures of the literary life of the black world for the past forty years. Moreover
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