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    This document provides an overview of African literature and history. It discusses how early humans originated in Africa, the development of ancient Egyptian civilization, and the flourishing of oral traditions and various literary genres between 300-1600 AD across western and eastern African empires. It also summarizes the influences of colonization on Africa beginning in the 15th century and the religious conversions that accompanied European exploration of the continent.

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    African

    Literature
    An introduction
    Africa: The Timeline
     The cradle of life
     Egypt
     African countries and regions
     Oral traditions
     Literature
     Colonization
     Modern African Contributions
    In the Beginning……
     Anthropologists believe that the first modern
    humans (Homo sapiens) began in the
    northern regions of the African continent
     Cradle of life
     High number of archeological finds
     Some of oldest fossils
     Homo sapiens: Roughly 100,000 years ago
     African climate is varied in several regions:
    Desert, coastline, tropical rain forest, plains
    and mountains.
    Egypt
     3000 B.C.-343 B.C.
     First great civilization
     Vibrant and strong empire that centered
    on a polytheistic society
     Pantheon of gods and influence on the
    middle eastern religious perspective:
    Greek, Roman
     Written language: Hieroglyphics
    The Golden Age:
     300-1600 AD
     Sculpture, music, metal work and textiles
     Literature plays a huge role in the creation
    and success of the empires
     Oral traditions and epics
     Praise poems
     Fables
     Proverbs
     Dramas
    Types of literature
     Epics: long narrative that relates deeds of larger-
    than-life hero who embodies traits of society
     Proverb: a short, traditional saying that expresses
    some obvious truth or familiar experience
     Used to convey accumulated cultural wisdom
     Often use literary elements (metaphors, alliteration,
    parallelism, rhyme)
     Oral traditions: stories passed from generation to
    generation through word of mouth.
     Dilemma/enigma tale: moral tale that ends with
    question to allow audience to share judgments
     Chain/cumulative tale: formulaic, each incident is
    repeated as new incidents are added
     The 12 days of Christmas
     A single extended joke
    Eastern Africa:
    Fasa and Aksum
     Well developed oral
    traditions
     These were the first great
    civilizations that created
    full and dominant
    cultural footholds in the
    northern region of Africa
     These were the center of
    trade routes from Rome
    all the way to India
     The key to their success
    was the development of
    a specific and complex
    writing system.
    African empires
     Old Ghana: A strong
    and prosperous
    kingdom: Mainly traders
    of salt and gold
     Old Mali: Overtook Old
    Ghana for supremacy
     Songhai: The last of the
    great kingdoms
     Timbuktu: The marriage
    of Songhai and Old Mali
    empires: Hugely
    successful kingdom
    Religious and cultural
    influences
     Tribal origins are founded in a polytheistic
    and nature-based belief system
     4th century A.D. Roman empire introduces
    Christianity
     700 A.D. Islam introduced into the African
    continent.
     Islam becomes the recognized state
    religion of Mali and many eastern nations
    in 1235
    Literary devices for Africa
    Unit
     Parallelism  Refrain
     Epithet  Folk tale
     Apostrophe  Trickster
     Polytheistic
    vs.  Personification
    Monotheism  Proverb
     Omniscient Point of  Metaphor
    view  Alliteration
     Legend
     Rhyme
     Oral epic
    Colonization of Africa
     Many countries playing economic role in
    continent since exploration began
     Power of Islam and Christianity both
    fluctuate throughout Africa
     Initial interest: Economic not religious
     Withthe end of slave trade, Western
    world needed to fill financial gap
     “Scramble for Africa”: Who gets what part?
     Religious purposes allow for further
    exploration
     Religious colonization meant to “civilize”
    the natives

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