Africa is the worlds second largest continentThe greatest religion in Africa is Christianity and they worship priest diviners and prophets Africa had no written historical records but had their own traditional storytelling which were told through instruments For instance in North America ID: 683746
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African Literature
By: Zia Woody, Tilor Maddox, & Nigela CouchSlide2
Africa is the world’s second largest continent.The greatest religion in Africa is Christianity and they worship priest, diviners, and prophets. Africa had no written historical records, but had their own traditional storytelling which were told through instruments. For instance, in North America they played what called the
gimbri(a long-necked lute).Some of their languages include Arabic, Somali, Berber, Amharic, Oromo, Swahili, Hausa, Igbo, Fulani and Yoruba.
IntroductionSlide3
> African Literature was used to remind whole communities of their ancestors’, heroic deeds, their past, and their customs and traditions.
> They also used their literature to express strong feelings such as: > horror of slavery and slavery trade after WWll > The children were taught that their literature was very important to their culture and that it was used to educate and entertain.
Key FactsSlide4
Oral Literatures have been in Africa for many centuries including folk tales found in these lessons, myths, epics, funeral dirges, praise poems, & proverbs.
Elements and Style of AfricaSlide5
FORMS
Complex and variegated (many styles)Epics (sung, multi-episodic–long–poetry; Homer, Africa, Turkey, etc.)
Ballads (sung narrative poem with a single episode)
Panegyric Odes (to praise rulers and heros; Africa, Oceania)
Lyric Poetry (relatively short, non-narrative, sung poem – most of our songs, psalms, hymns, etc.)
Various others (lengthy religious verse, plays, prayers, curses, street-cries, rhymes, etc.)
Elements and Style of Africa (Continued)Slide6Slide7
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Mariama Ba > Buchi Emecheta
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Bessie Head
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Ousmane Sembene
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Ngugi wa Thiongo
Key Authors
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Mariama Ba
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Buchi Emecheta
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Bessie Head
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Ousmane
SembeneSlide8
Mariama Bâ was born in 1929 in Dakar, the capital city of Senegal, on Africa's Atlantic coast.
Bâ wrote a book about the colonial educational system and a widely discussed nationalist essay while she was still in school. She received her teaching certificate in 1947 and worked as a teacher, starting at a medical high school in Dakar, for 12 years.
BOOKS:
Contemporary Black Biography
, vol. 30, Gale, 2002.
Kempen, Laura Charlotte,
Mariama Bâ, Rigoberto Menchú, and Postcolonial Feminism
, Peter Lang, 2002.
Literature of Developing Nations for Students
, vol. 2, Gale, 2000.
Mariama BaSlide9
Born 21 July 1944, in Lagos is a
Nigerian novelist who has published over 20 books, including Second-Class Citizen (1974),
The Bride Price
(1976),
The Slave Girl
(1977) and
The Joys of Motherhood
(1979). Her themes of child slavery, motherhood, female independence and freedom through education have won her considerable critical acclaim and honours, including an
Order of the British Empire
in 2005. Emecheta once described her stories as "stories of the world…[where]… women face the universal problems of poverty and oppression, and the longer they stay, no matter where they have come from originally, the more the problems become identical."
Buchi Emecheta Slide10
Bessie Emery Head
July 6 1937 – April 17 1986, though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana
's most influential writer.
Most of Bessie Head's important works are set in
Serowe
, in particular the three novels
When Rain Clouds Gather
(1968),
Maru
(1971), and A Question of Power(1973). One of her best works is
When Rain Clouds Gather
, in which she writes about a troubled young man called Makhaya who runs away from his birthplace, South Africa, to become a refugee in a little village called Golema Mmidi, in the heart of Botswana. Here he is faced with many challenges, one of which is the fact that Chief Matenge does not allow his presence in the village. He meets a white man named Gilbert and starts a whole new journey into the unknown.
Bessie Head Slide11
Ousmane Sembène January 1 1923 – June 9 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a
Senegalese film director, producer and writer. The Los Angeles Times considered him one of the greatest authors of Africa and has often been called the "father of African film".[1] Descended from a Serer
family through his mother from the
line
of Matar Sène, Ousmane Sembène was particularly drawn to
Serer religious
festivals especially the
Tuur festival
.
[2]Ousmane Sembene Slide12
African literature is very important to today’s society if it weren’t for the African Literature we wouldn’t have some of the forms of writing and literature we have today. African Literature and culture gave us metaphors and imagery that made our poetry and writing deeper and understanding.
Importance of AfricaSlide13
Proverbs play a big role and so does modern language in African Literature. For deeper meaning. Metaphors, imagery, & many more are rooted in the specificities of African experience. So, without African Literature our poetry and writing would just be “writing”.
What would the World be like WITHOUT African LiteratureSlide14
In conclusion, Africa does not separate art from teaching. Rather than too write, for beauty in itself, African writers, taking their cue from oral literature they use singing and dancing as an important way to help communicate important truths and information to the society.
ConclusionSlide15
www.iuncredlist.orgwww.exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/students/curriculum/m11/background.php
www.exhibitions.nypl.org/africanage/essay-negritude.html
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