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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 ...
Brittle Paper publishes original content submitted by authors, as well as commissioned reviews, interviews, essays, and other literary work. Having grown into "a thriving community of readers and writers interested in everything about African literature", [12] the blog is regarded as a major publicity platform for new books by African writers.
Macuncuzade Mustafa Efendi was an Ottoman qadi and poet who wrote a slave narrative about his captivity and enslavement in Hospitaller Malta between 1597 and 1600.. Macuncuzade was born in Constantinople in around the 1550s.
Obi Wali was born on 27 February 1932 in Rumuigbo Town, headquarters of Apara Kingdom, in Obio Akpor Local Government Area of Rivers State. [1] His parents were Chief Frank Wali Otogbo (1889-1980) and Princess Jane Wali Otogbo (1895-1976) daughter of the famous Chief Ezebunwo Amadi Nwondugba (Deceased) of (Worenwu Family) Oroworukwo Wami Community, the then paramount ruler of Oroworukwo Rebisi ...
As a result of Kenya's history, including a period where it was a former British colony, Kenyan literature concurrently belongs to several bodies of writing, including that of the Commonwealth of Nations and of Africa as a whole. [1] Most written literature is in English; some scholars consider Swahili to be marginalized in Kenyan literature. [2]
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 ...
It's hailed as one of the greatest works of fiction to emerge from Africa. But Things Fall Apart was written in English, sparking debate about the colonisation of language.
Afrikaans can claim the same literary roots as contemporary Dutch, as both languages stem from 17th-century Dutch. One of the oldest examples of written Cape Dutch is the poem Lied ter eere van de Swellendamsche en diverse andere helden bij de bloedige actie aan Muizenberg in dato 7 August 1795 (Song in Honour of the Swellendam and various others Heroes at the Bloody Action at Muizenberg) [3 ...