African literature

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Who doesn’t “see African literature as one unit but as a group of associated units in fact the sum total of all national and ethnic literatures of Africa.

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Chinua Achebe

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“African writing done in any language by Africans themselves and by others of whatever skin color … who share the African experience and who have African centered consciousness”.

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Nadine Gordimer

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Major Themes of African literature

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Colonialism
Tradition
displacement
Liberation
Nationalism

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The father of modern African literature.

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Chinua Achebe

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a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

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Chinua Achebe

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Critiqued Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness (1899), in which he accuses the popular novel of rampant racism through its othering of the African continent and its people.

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Chinua Achebe

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Name Chinua Achebe’s extraordinary works of the 20th century.

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Things Fall Apart (1958)
No longer at ease
Arrow of God
Anthills of savanna
Chike and the river

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He died at the age of ____ on March 21,2013 in _______.

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82 ; Boston

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a devastating depiction of the clash between traditional tribal values and the effects of colonial rule, as well as the tension between masculinity and femininity in highly patriarchal societies.

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Things Fall Apart (1958)

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a Nigerian writer whose works range from novels to short stories to nonfiction.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Characteristics of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie works:

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Character-driven
Historical
Political
interweaving the background of her native Nigeria and social and political events into the narrative.

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Works of Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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Purple Hibiscus (2003)
Americanah (2013)
We should all be feminists
The thing around your neck
Half of yellow sun
A feminist manifesto in 15 suggestions

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an insightful portrayal of Nigerian immigrant life and race relations in America and the western world.

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Americanah (2013)

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a bildungsroman novel , depicting the life experience of Kambili and her family during a military coup.

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Purple Hibiscus (2003)

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Have been nominated for and won numerous awards, including the ____ ____ and ____ _____.

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Orange Prize ; Booker Prize

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is a Ghanaian writer best known as an essayist, as well as having written poetry, short stories, and books for children.

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AyiKwei Armah

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His novels are known for their intense, powerful depictions of _______ devastation and ______ frustration in Armah’s native Ghana, told from the point of view of the individual.

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political ; social

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Themes of AyiKwei Armah works

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despair
disillusionment
irrationality

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His works were greatly influenced by French existential philosophers, such as Jean Paul Sartre and Albert Camus

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AyiKwei Armah

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Works of AyiKwei Armah

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The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)
The healers
Fragments

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The gist of The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968)

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an unnamed protagonist who attempts to understand his self and his country in the wake of post-independence.

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a Senegalese author and feminist, whose French-language novels were both translated into more than a dozen languages.

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Mariama Bâ

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one of Africa’s most influential women authors

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Mariama Bâ

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Writes powerful ______ texts, which address the issues of gender inequality in her native ______ and wider Africa.

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feminist ; Senegal

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Her anger and frustration at the _______ structures which defined her life spill over into her literature.

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patriarchal

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herself experienced many of the prejudices facing women: she struggled for an education against her traditional grandparents, and was left to look after her nine children after divorcing a prominent politician.

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Mariama Bâ

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novel that depicts, simultaneously, its protagonist’s strength and powerlessness within marriage and wider society.

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So Long A Letter (1981)

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A Somali novelist.

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Nuruddin Farah

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He has also written plays both for ____ and _____, as well as short stories and essays.

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stage ; radio

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His work revolves around his ________ of his native country.

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experiences

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His work revolves around his ________ of his native country.

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experiences

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Works of Nuruddin Farah

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From a Crooked Rib (1970) Crossbones Sardines

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stems from a Somalian proverb “God created woman from a crooked rib, and anyone who trieth to straighten it, breaketh it”, and is a commentary on the sufferings of women in Somalian society through the narrative of a young woman trapped in an unhappy marriage.

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From a Crooked Rib (1970)

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His subsequent works feature similar social criticism, dealing with themes of ____ and ______-_____ _____.

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war ; post-colonial identity

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oral literature is also called as

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Orature

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Types of Orature

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Myth Epic Proverbs

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explains the interrelationships of all things that exist and their relation to their environment

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Myth

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"Why the Sun and the Moon live in the Sky" is an example of a _____

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Myth

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elaborate literary forms that are performed by experts on special occasions. They often retell heroic stories of ancestors

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Epics

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short, witty, or ironic statements, metaphorical in their formulation which aim to communicate a response to specific situations, usually offering advice or persuading.

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Proverbs

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Genres of Written literature

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Novels, Plays, Poems, Tales.

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Nowadays, this literature is more focused on the present realities of African life, which often represent the past negatively.

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Written literature

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Written literature was concerned with responding and revolting against ______ and ______ and reconstructing an African past.

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colonialism ; corruption

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Written literature. Example: Things Fall Apart

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Novel

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Written literature.Example: Master Harold and the Boys

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Plays

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Written literature. Example: Africa My Africa

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Poem

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Written literature. Example: The Tortoise, the Dog, and the Farmer

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Tales