African literature is literature from Africa, either oral ("orature") or written in African and Afro-Asiatic languages. Examples of pre-colonial African...

African American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent. It begins with the works of such late...

South African literature is the literature of South Africa, which has 11 national languages: Afrikaans, English, Zulu, Xhosa, Sotho, Pedi, Tswana, Venda...

African Poetry Britta Olinde, A Sense of Place: Essays in Post-Colonial Literatures Olivier, Gerrit (1995). "Afrikaans and South African Literature"...

Cannibalism in the Literature of the Black Atlantic from Equiano's Travels to Toni Morrison's Beloved". Research in African Literatures. 29 (4): 107–121...

Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann Educational, 1986), by the Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist...

geologically part of the African continent. Algeria is Africa's largest country by area, and Nigeria is its largest by population. African nations cooperate...

an oxymoron, but oral literature remains more common both in academic and popular writing. The Encyclopaedia of African Literature, edited by Simon Gikandi...

Soyinka won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1986, as did South African novelist Nadine Gordimer in 1995. Other South African writers in English are novelist...

Central African literature Angolan literature Cameroonian literature Literature of Central African Republic Chadian literature Congolese literature Equatorial...

Literature is any collection of written work, but it is also used more narrowly for writings specifically considered to be an art form, especially prose...

university in Africa teach African literature, including oral literature, and that such should be done with the realization of the richness of African languages...

African Literature Today (ALT) is a journal that was first published in 1968 and is now the oldest international journal of African Literature still publishing...

figure of modern African literature. His first novel and magnum opus, Things Fall Apart (1958), occupies a pivotal place in African literature and remains...

other members of the African diaspora. Things Fall Apart (1958) by Chinua Achebe is one of the milestones in African literature. Other post-colonial authors...

Critiques of Christianity in African literature: with particular reference to the East African context. East African Publishers. p. 60. ISBN 978-9966-46-580-1...

cause of the Ikwerre ethnic minorities and argued that African literature should be written in African languages. Obi Wali was born on 27 February 1932 in...

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Asian literature is the literature produced in Asia. East Asian literature Chinese literature Japanese literature Korean literature Mongolian literature Taiwanese...

Black literature is literature created by or for Black people. For more, see: African literature African-American literature Afro-Brazilian literature Black...

Epstein, Edmund L.; Kole, Robert, eds. (1998). The Language of African Literature. Africa World Press. p. ix. ISBN 0-86543-534-0. Retrieved 2011-06-23....

constitutes African literature? Is it literature written by Africans, literature that depicts the African experience? Does African literature have to be...

Genealogies: National and Feminine Novels", Research in African Literatures: Achebe's World: African Literature at Ffty, 42.2 (2011), 91–101, JSTOR 42.2.91 Andrade...

promotion of both written and performed African poetry. Numerous examples of pre-colonial African literature span the continent, from scripts documenting...

Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa is a pan-African writing prize awarded biennially to the best literary work produced by an African. It was established...

Award for Publishing in Africa (discontinued) Tchicaya U Tam'si Prize for African Poetry Wole Soyinka Prize for Literature in Africa Man Asian Literary Prize...

Xhosa literature is the spoken and written literature of the Xhosa people of Southern Africa. The Xhosa language is spoken in South Africa and Zimbabwe...

P'Bitek, Okot. African Religions and Western Scholarship. Kampala: East African Literature Bureau, 1970. Princeton Online, History of Africa Wiredu, Kwasi...

The South African Border War, also known as the Namibian War of Independence, and sometimes denoted in South Africa as the Angolan Bush War, was a largely...

This is a timeline of African American Children's literature milestones in the United States from 1600 – present. The timeline also includes selected events...