Introduction
Objectives:
- To gain an understanding of African literature and/or translated into English.
- To use a variety of sources, including the folk and oral traditions, novels, short stories, and poems from African countries;
- To become aware of the contemporary and historical issues surrounding African languages, African literatures, and African cultures;
- To be able to place African literature in English in a historical context and within the larger framework of world literature;
Contents:
- Post-colonial Studies Concept;
- Colonial Vs National Literature;
- Brief history of British Empire;
- British Presence in Africa;
- Africa The Fiction Novel, the masculine perspective from Nigeria
- Africa The Fiction Novel, the female perspective from Nigeria;
- Africa Non-Fiction Autobiography;
- The Caribbean the Fiction Novel displaced peoples;
- World Poetry;
- Performing Literature: Drama;
- Performing Literature: Song;
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Things Fall Apart, New York: Anchor Books.
Makuchi (1999)
Your madness, not mine: Stories of Cameroon. Athens, OH: Ohio University Press.
Bâ, M. (1980)
So Long a Letter, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Dangarembga, T. (1988)
Nervous Conditions, New York: Seal Press.
Emecheta, B. (1986)
Head above water: An Autobiography, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
Gordimer, N. (1982)
July’s People, New York: Penguin.
Mandela, N. (1994)
A Long Walk to Freedom, New York: Back Bay Books.
Niane, D.T. (1960)
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Nwapa, F. (1966)
Efuru, Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann.
P’Bitek, O. (1984)
Song of Lawino & Song of Ocol, Portsmouth: Heinemann.
Shelton, A. (ed), (1968)
The African Assertion: A Critical anthology of African Literature, Place: Publisher.
Soyinka, W. (1967)
Idanre and Other Poems, London: Methuen.
