Africa.pptx

Africa.pptx

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  • Background • RepresentativeAuthors and • Representative Texts of Africa
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  Africa, the “Cradleof the Humankind” according to scientists, has a literature that is filled with the human spirit, desiring for freedom and contentment. African literature consists of oral tradition and written literature ranging from local languages brought by the colonizers (English, Portuguese, and French). The experiences of the colonization and post-colonization shape the African literature.
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  The oral literatureof Africa such as myths, stories, riddles, proverbs, and dramas document the exploits of the heroes of the communities, remind the people about their culture and traditions, entertain and educate the youth. It flourishes across the continent in the 15th century CE until the interaction of Africa with Europe and Asia, their trade and cultural partners, serves as the main contributor to the African literature growth.
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  In the 19thcentury, European countries compete for the colonization of the African territory to gain political and economic edge. The colonization and slave trade has awaken the African psyche (the soul and mind) incredibly. The literary works are the vehicle, specifically the newspaper, in exposing the psychological social impact of colonization.
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  African writers expresstheir cry for freedom from oppression through their poetry and narrative works. Though they use the European language to produce their literary works, the cry for independence has reached to the climax, so strong and effective, with the embodiment of the spirit of nationalism, gained worldwide acclaim.
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  In the contemporarytimes, African writers experience new challenges with their new and sovereign government. They still use their literary works as a vehicle in expressing their voices against their government with a constant theme of corruption.
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  He was aNigerian novelist, poet, critic, and professor and was honored as Grand Prix de la Memoir of the 2019 edition of the Grand Prix of Literary Associations. His first novel and masterpiece, “Things Fall Apart”, is the most widely read book in modern African literature. It concerns the traditional Igbo life at the time of the advent of missionaries and the colonial government in his homeland.
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  He was thefirst black African to be awarded the 1986 Nobel Prize for Literature. One of his famous works is his first important play “A Dance of the Forests” which was written for the Nigerian independence celebrations. It parodies the emerging nation by stripping it of romantic legend and by showing that the present is no more a golden age than it was before.
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  He was aGhanaian novelist and poet who wrote “This Earth, My Brother”, a cross between a novel and a poem. It was told on two levels each representing a distinct reality. The first level is a standard narrative which details a day in the life of an attorney named Amamu. The second level is a symbol-laden mystical journey filled with biblical and literary allusions.
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  East Africa’s leadingnovelist, a Kenyan writer who wrote the famous novel “Weep Not, Child”. It was the first major novel in English by an East African. It deals with the Mau-Mau Uprising, a war in the British Kenya Colony (1920–1963) between the Kenya Land and Freedom Army.
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  He was aUgandan poet, novelist, and social anthropologist who wrote the three verse collections – Song of Lawino (1966), Song of Ocol (1970), and Two Songs (1971). He achieved international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernized. It was followed by the husband’s reply, the Song of Ocol.
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  A South Africanwriter and the recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature. She wrote the joint winner of the Booker - McConnell Prize novel “The Conservationist”. The story is a character study of a successful South African industrial executive and, by extension, a critique of South Africa.
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  He was aMalagasy playwright and poet and one of Madagascar’s most prominent writers. He wrote and published his play “Les dieux Malgaches”, the first modern Malagasy play in French. This play dealt with the pre-colonial past and with the coup that unseated King Radama II in 1863.
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  He wrote theSouth African classic autobiography “Down Second Avenue” about the story of a young man’s growth into adulthood with penetrating social criticism of the conditions forced upon black South Africans by a system of institutionalized racial segregation.
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  He was thegreatest writer from the Sotho people in Africa. He created the first Western-style novels in the Basotho language. His novel “Chaka” became a classic. It was a historical novel about the story of the rise and fall of the Zulu king Shaka. Dennis P. Kunene translated the novel from Sotho to English.