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African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African literature can be traced back to at least the fourth century AD.
Abiola Irele was born in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria, and moved to Enugu very early in his life. His father is from Uokha while his mother is from Ora both in Owan area of Edo State. . The first language he learned was Igbo, which he learned from the servants who worked for his father and took care of him growing up.
However, he appreciates the book's determination to treat Africa's literature as art in its own right, in contrast to what he called "paternalistic" studies of African novels. [nb 1] Bruce King, in a review published in Obsidian: Literature and Arts in the African Diaspora, called it "one of the best books available on African literature". He ...
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... Novels set in Africa (8 C, 95 P) ... International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture; M.
The Literary History of the Igbo Novel: African Literature in African Languages. Oxon: Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781003017455. ISBN 978-0-367-36961-3. Green, M. (1948). "The Unwritten Literature of the Igbo-Speaking People of South-Eastern Nigeria". Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. 12 (3– 4). Cambridge University Press ...
However, although West African manuscripts are plentiful, esteemed in academia and the media, and have been subject to numerous institutional initiatives to be preserved and digitized, there has been a limited amount of philological research done on West African manuscripts, due to a collective academic "hypertrophy of theory," "devaluation of ...
Books in the series have also won the Commonwealth Prize, the NOMA Award for African Writing, the Caine Prize for African Writing, and Guardian Fiction Prize. In 2002, at a celebration of Africa's 100 Best Books of the Twentieth Century, Heinemann was given a prize, as 12 of the titles chosen were from the series.