It’s also a place with a tradition of written literature that dates back to before the Christian era ... S.E. Ogude’s Genius in Bondage: A Study of the Origins of African Literature in ...

H ack is well aware of the risk in tracing what seems like the black literary tradition’s dependence on white culture. Indeed, scholars of African-American literature have mostly overlooked ...

Mandela loved Achebe's talent to capture the nuances of African societies with such authenticity and depth, hence it is an ...

It was the norm in traditional societies and had multiple functions which did not cease with the advance of written African literature in English. They co-exist in these societies and influence ...

Decolonizling the Europhone African Novel discusses the quest for linguistic identity in postcolonial African fiction. Critics of African literature contend that contemporary African fiction written ...

The significance of African American literature has never been more profound. This is neither an imaginative nor conspiratorial factoid, especially amid the systematic dismantling of DEI ...

Reacquainting with the issue of literature written in English by African writers and how it applies to the subcontinent While reading the highly learned review of Kenya’s celebrated novelist ...

Last Saturday afternoon, I attended “Writing Africa: Making 10 years of the Caine Prize“ at the British Library in London. The prize, which awards around $16,000 to the best short story written by an ...

In 1958, Achebe responded with his own novel about Nigeria, Things Fall Apart, which was one of the first books to tell the story of European colonization from an African perspective. (It has ...

The topic of the importance of African-language literature is not new, of course. Nor is the evidence of marginalization by "global" opinion-makers. Ngugi wa Thiong'o, ...

Literature first flourished in the 70s, when Somali President Mohammed Siad Barre introduced a standard written version of the Somali language using Latin script. Kate Stanworth Somaliland's fight ...