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Francophone literature is literature written in the French language. The existence of a plurality of literatures in the French language has been recognised, although the autonomy of these literatures is less defined than the plurality of literatures written in the English language.
As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African Literature [3] in Understanding Contemporary Africa, whereas European views of literature stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness is inclusive and "literature" can also simply mean an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone. Traditionally, Africans do not radically ...
Ndongolera Mwangupili (b. 1977), poet and short story writer; George Mwase (c.1885–1962), author of a historical account of the 1915 rebellion, published 1967 (2nd ed. 1970). [30] Anthony Nazombe (1955–2004), poet and academic [22] Innocent Masina Nkhonyo (b. 1987), short story writer and poet
Short Stories: Quartet: New Voices from South Africa. Short stories by Alex La Guma, James Matthews, Richard Rive and Alf Wannenburgh. 15: Cook, David: 1965 Various: Origin East Africa: a Makerere anthology devised and edited by David Cook. Prose and verse. 16: Achebe, Chinua: 1965 Novel: Arrow of God: 17: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (as Ngugi, James ...
The emerging genre of Afrofuturist literature is influenced by two strands, Afro-pessimism and Black optimism. [7] Afro-pessimism asserts that the violence of colonialism and slavery contributes to a definition of Blackness as a state of non-being. In this state, Black individuals exist within and yet are alienated from the rest of society. [8]
So Long a Letter (French: Une si longue lettre) is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ. [1] It was her first novel.
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The Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire (one of the major literary prizes of Black Africa for Francophone Literature) is a literary prize presented every year by the ADELF, the Association of French Language Writers for a French original text from Sub-Saharan Africa. It was originally endowed with 2,000 french francs.