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    This chapter introduces African literature, discussing its oral and written forms. It notes that African literature includes works composed in African languages as well as foreign ones. Oral literature includes folktales, myths, riddles, and proverbs, while written literature emerged after World War II. The chapter outlines several major African languages and discusses early written works in languages like Sesotho, Yoruba, and Ibo. It highlights influential African writers who helped establish African literature in English, such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

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    This chapter introduces African literature, discussing its oral and written forms. It notes that African literature includes works composed in African languages as well as foreign ones. Oral literature includes folktales, myths, riddles, and proverbs, while written literature emerged after World War II. The chapter outlines several major African languages and discusses early written works in languages like Sesotho, Yoruba, and Ibo. It highlights influential African writers who helped establish African literature in English, such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

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    This chapter introduces African literature, discussing its oral and written forms. It notes that African literature includes works composed in African languages as well as foreign ones. Oral literature includes folktales, myths, riddles, and proverbs, while written literature emerged after World War II. The chapter outlines several major African languages and discusses early written works in languages like Sesotho, Yoruba, and Ibo. It highlights influential African writers who helped establish African literature in English, such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

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    This chapter introduces African literature, discussing its oral and written forms. It notes that African literature includes works composed in African languages as well as foreign ones. Oral literature includes folktales, myths, riddles, and proverbs, while written literature emerged after World War II. The chapter outlines several major African languages and discusses early written works in languages like Sesotho, Yoruba, and Ibo. It highlights influential African writers who helped establish African literature in English, such as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o.

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    CHAPTER 1

    AFRICAN LITERATURE

    OBJECTIVES
    1. Characterize African literature
    2. Differentiate oral and written literature
    3. Discuss the different African languages
    4. Appreciate African literary works in English
    5. Identify various African writers

    INTRODUCTION

    ➢ African literature- comprises the oral and written works of the continent, composed
    in either African languages or foreign ones.
    ➢ Oral literature
    • performative
    • themes are mythological, historical and experiences
    ➢ Ruth Finnegan – It is te first oral literature in Africa. Some example of oral literature
    in Africa.
    • Folktales
    • myths
    • The South African Legend of the evil “Tokoloshe”
    • Riddles
    • Proverbs
    ➢ Griots - First storytellers
    ➢ Written literature - Most were written after world war II.
    ➢ Muslim - inspired religious writings from North Africa
    ➢ Epistle on Sufism - by Al- Junayd

    AFRICAN LANGUAGES
    ➢ Linguist estimate that more than thousand languages are spoken in Africa.
    ➢ Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan – 17th century allegory and was being modeled by
    the first full-length narratives in Sesotho, Yoruba, and Ibo.
    ➢ The first written literature consists of translated church hymns and retold biblical
    stories.
    ENGLISH
    ➢ First major works in West Africa appeared in the 1950s.
    ➢ Chinua Achebe's "Things Fall Apart" and Amos Tutuola's "The Palm-Wine
    Drunkard" are celebrated classics.
    ➢ After independence, the literary emphasis in West Africa changed to a confrontation
    with the present
    ➢ Nigerian writers have described the horrors of the Nigerian-Biafran war and its
    aftermath.
    ➢ Writing in English by blacks and Coloureds in South Africa was impeded by racial
    oppression and censorship under apartheid.
    ➢ The Harsh Publications and Entertainments Act of 1963 limited publishing by non-
    whites and resulted in the departure of talented black writers.
    ➢ By the mid-1970s, even black poetry was banned
    ➢ The literary works of white South Africans, even those critical of the regime, were
    generally better received.

    AFRICAN WRITERS & POETS


    A. WOLE SOYINKA
    • Born in Nigeria on July 13, 1934
    • English-Language poet and most celebrated playwright of Black Africa.
    • His work earned him a 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature - The first time a Black
    African writer had been so honored and the first international honor in
    literature ever won by a Black African.
    • First play : The Swamp Dwellers - produced in London in 1958
    • Two volumes of his collected plays have been published (1973 and 1974)
    • Plays : Death and the King's Horseman (1975), Opera Wonyosi (1979), and
    Play of Giants (1984)
    • Nadine Gordimer (second sub-Saharan African winner of the Nobel Prize in
    1991)

    B. CHINUA ACHEBE
    • Nigerian novelist and poet
    • First novel : Things Fall Apart (1958)
    • The Arrow of God (1964) and A Man of the People (1966)
    • Short story collection : Girls at War (1972) and Christmas in Biafra and Other
    Poems (1973)
    • Co editor of Okike (one of Africa's most influential literary magazines)
    C. JOHN PEPPER CLARK
    • Nigerian poet, dramatist, and literary critic
    • Born on April 6, 1935
    • Contributed to the Nigerian renaissance in the late '50s and early '60s
    • Interest in collecting traditional African oral literature
    • Notable plays: Ozidi (1966) and Song of a Goat (1961)
    • Poem: A Decade of Tongues

    D. JAMES NGUGI WA THIONG'O


    • Born on January 5, 1938, in Kenya
    • Educated in both Kenya and England
    • Considered the most important East African novelist
    • First two novels: "Weep, Not Child" (1964) and "The River Between" (1965)
    • Most successful novel: A Grain of Wheat (1967) about the Mau Mau rebellion
    • Criticism of the Kenyan government in his novel "Petals of Blood" (1977) led
    to imprisonment.
    • Diary: Detain (1981)

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