African Literature ppt by Shara May Anacay BSE - English Submitted to: Professor Sharon Delos Reyes

1. By: Shara May M. Anacay

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AFRICA TERRA – Land of the afri
AFRI(Plural)
AFER(Singular)
AFER May be from:
PHOENICIAN AFAR – Meaning dust
or
AFRIDI – Tribe of northern africa
ETYMOLOGY

3. 
GREEK APHRIKE –
Meaning without cold or
LATIN APRICA – Meaning
sunny
And later became Africa
ETYMOLOGY

4. 
AFRICA – 2nd largest continent next to
Asia
It covers more than ONE – FIFTH Of all
the earth’s surface
It comprises 46 COUNTRIES
AND TERRITORIES
INTRODUCTION

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SUEZ CANAL, THE GULF OF SUEZ AND THE RED
SEA – Separate Africa from Asia
SRAITS OF GIBRALTAR AND MEDITERRANEAN
SEA – Separate Africa from Europe
ATLANTIC OCEAN – West
INDIAN OCEAN - East
INTRODUCTION

6. 
FIVE MAJOR LANGUAGES:
1. Afroasiastic languages
2. Click languages
3. Niger – congo languages
4. Sudanic languages
5. Austronesian languages
LANGUAGES

7. 
ISLAM – Dominant
religion of northern
Africa
It replaced Christianity in the
17th century
RELIGION

8. 
LITERARY RATES FOR MEN Are
higher than women
URBAN EDUCATION Are higher than
rural education
RICHEST Countries invest more than
poorest countries in terms of education
Only a small fraction of afica’ s young
people attend universities
EDUCATION

9. 
It includes ORAL LITERATURE
They called it as ORATURE
ORATURE – Was coined by PIO ZIRIMU
PIO ZIRIMU – Ugandan scholar
AFRICAN LITERATURE

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PROSE – Mythological or
historical, written or spoken
language
CALL-AND RESPONSE –
Spontaneous verbal and
non-verbal interaction
between the speaker and
the listener
AFRICAN LITERATURE

11. 
EPIC OF SUNDIATA –
Composed in medieval Mali
EPIC OF DINGA – From Old
Ghana empire
PRE-COLONIAL LITERATURE

12. 
KEBRA NAGAST OR THE BOOK
OF KINGS – The best known work
in this tradition
TRICKSTER STORY – One of the popular
form of traditional African folktale
PRE-COLONIAL LITERATURE

13. 
JOSEPH EPHRAIM CASELY
HAYFORD – Published the
1st African novel written in
English
ETHIOPIA UNBOUND –
1st African novel written in
English
COLONIAL LITERATURE

14. 
HERBERT ISAAC ERNEST
DHLOMO– Published 1st
English- language
African play
THE GIRL WHO LIKED TO SAVE – 1st
English-language African play
COLONIAL LITERATURE

15. 
NGUGI WA THIONG’O – Wrote
1st east African drama
BLACK HERMIT – 1st east
African drama
COLONIAL LITERATURE

16. 
THINGS FALL APART BY CHINUA ACHEBE –
Receive significant worldwide critical acclaim
COLONIAL LITERATURE

17. 
LEOPOID SEDAR SENGHOR –
President of Senegal published the
1st anthology of French language poetry
ANTHOLOGY OF THE NEW BLACK
AND MALAGASY POETRY IN THE
FRENCH LANGUAGE – 1st anthology of French
language poetry
COLONIAL LITERATURE

18. 
ALI A. MAZRUI – Mention 7 CONFLICTS As
THEMES:
- The clash between Africa's past and present
- Between tradition and modernity
- Between individualism and community
- Between socialism and capitalism
- Between development and self-reliance
- Between Africanity and humanity
POST-COLONIAL LIT

19. 
WOLE SOYINKA (JULY 13,
1934 IN NIGERIA)
- Foremost ENGLISH
LANGUAGE POET
- He won the NOBEL PRIZE
FOR LITERATUREIN 1986
- 1ST AFRICAN WRITER Who
won the novel prize for
literature in 1986
AFRICAN RITERS AND POETS

20. 
- The 2ND AFRICAN WRITER Winner of the
novel Prize was NADINE GORDIMER In
19991
- 1ST PLAY: The swamp dwellers.
- OTHER PLAYS: Death and the king’s horse
man, opera wonyosi and play of giants.
AFRICAN RITERS AND POETS

21. 
CHINUA ACHEBE
- Nigerian novelist and
poet
- His 1st novel was
entitled THINGS FALL
APART
- He has been co-editor of
okike
AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

22. 
- OKIKE (Was of Africa's most influential
literary magazines)
- Other works: THE ARROW OF GOD, A
MAN OF THE PEOPLE, GIRLS AT
WAR, CHRISTMAS IN BIAFRA AND
OTHER POEMS
AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

23. 
JOHN PEPPER CLARK
- Nigerian poet, dramatist, and
literary critic
- Born: APRIL 6, 1935
- Plays: OZIDI AND SONG
OF GOAT
- Representative of his poetry
was the volume, A DEVADE
OF TONGUES.
AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

24. 
NGUGI WA THIONG’O
- Born: JANUARY 5, 1938
IN KENYA
- The most important east
African novelist
- 1st two novels: WEEP NOT, CHILD
AND THE RIVER BETWEEN
AFRICAN WRITERS AND POETS

25. BY CHINUA ACHEBE

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OKONKWO – Respected and influential
leader
UNOKA – Okonkwo’s father
IKEMEFUNA – He was given to the village
as a peace offering by neighboring mbaino
NWOYE – Okonkwo’s son
OJIUGO – Youngest wife of okonkwo
EKWEFI – Second wife of okonkwo
CHARACTERS:

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OGBUEFI EZEUDER – Oldest man in
the village
OBIERIKA – Okonkwo’s best friend
EZINMA – Daughter of Okonkwo and
his wife Ekwefi
EGWUGWU – Nine clan leaders, also
represent nine villages of Umuofia
MGBAFO – Had been severely beaten
by her husband
CHARACTERS:

28. 
CHIELO – Toldcaves okonkwo
that agbala needs to see ezinma
AGBALA – The oracle of the hills
and caves
UCHENDU – Uncle of okonkwo
And a village elder of mbanta
CHI – Personal spirit
CHARACTERS:

29. 
EFULEFU – 1st recruits of the
missionaries; they are weak and
worthless men of the village
MR. BROWN – The white
missionary
REVEREND JAMES SMITH -
Becomes the new head of the
christian church
CHARACTERS:

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VOLATILE – Liable to change rapidly and
unpredictably , especially for the worse
APT – Having a tendency to do something
PROVOCATION – Action or speech that
makes someone annoyed or angry, especially
deliberately
EXILE – Expel, banish, drive out, throw out;
to be away from one’s home
VOCABULARY:

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KINSMAN – A man who is one of person’s
blood relations
MACHETE - A broad knife used as an
implement or weapon
BEHEADS – Form of execution
CLANSMAN – A male member of a clan
ORACLE – Authority, mentor, and adviser
SQUANDERED – Waste something in a
reckless and foolish manner
VOCABULARY:

32. 
UMUOFIA – Located in
eastern nigeria
MBANTA – Native village
of okonkwo’s mother
SETTING:

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