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Carli Coetzee is a research associate and Africanist at the African Studies Centre of the University of Oxford focusing on African literature and African popular cultural studies. [1] [2] In 1988 she obtained a Master's degree [3] in Afrikaans literature and in 1993 a PhD degree, both at the University of Cape Town.
Callaloo, A Journal of African Diaspora Arts and Letters, is a quarterly literary magazine established in 1976 [1] by Charles H. Rowell, who remains its editor-in-chief.It contains creative writing, visual art, and critical texts about literature and culture of the African diaspora, and is the longest continuously running African-American literary magazine.
The magazine publishes new and established, emerging and contemporary work by artists across the African diaspora in artistic disciplines including literature, visual, sound, and mixed media. It is abstracted and indexed in the Modern Language Association Database. [2]
Ngozi Therese Chuma-Udeh (/ŋgɔzi tə’ri:zə tʃu:mə ude/) is a Nigerian Professor of English (African and comparative literature stress). She is a teacher, an orator, academic, novelist, poet, and activist for women and children. [1]
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.
With liberation and increased literacy since most African nations gained their independence in the 1950s and 1960s, African literature has grown dramatically in quantity and in recognition, with numerous African works appearing in Western academic curricula and on "best of" lists compiled since the end of the 20th century.
African Literature Today (ALT) is a journal that was first published in 1968 and is now the oldest international journal of African Literature still publishing. [1]The journal was founded by Eldred Durosimi Jones, and annual volumes were edited by Eldred Jones, Marjorie Jones, and Professor Eustace Palmer, until ALT 23. [2]
Matatu: Journal for African Culture and Society is an academic journal on African literatures and societies dedicated to interdisciplinary dialogue between literary and cultural studies, historiography, the social sciences, and cultural anthropology.