21ST CENTURY LITERATURE WEEK 2 Flashcards
- from the Latin aprica (“sunny”) or the
Greek aphrike (“without cold”) - In antiquity the Greeks are said to have
called the continent Libya. - It has 5 regions, northern, western,
central, eastern and southern.
Africa
The “Dark Continent”
Africa
Hottest Desert
Sahara
Longest River
Nile River
1,500 languages example
Arabic, Swahili, Hausa, French,
English,
Tallest Animal
Giraffe and Diversity of
Biological Life
No. of ethnic
groups
2,000
55No. of countries
55
No. of kilometers of borders
84,00
Enormous
wealth of
mineral
resources
world’s largest reserves of
fossil fuels, metallic ores, and
gems and precious metals
Great diversity of
biological
resources
ush equatorial rainforests of
Central Africa wildlife of the
eastern and southern portions
of the continent
“Education is the most powerful weapon which
you can use to change the world.”
NELSON MANDELA
- Nobel Prize for Peace winner in 1993,
along with South Africa’s president at
the time, F.W. de Klerk, for having led
the transition from apartheid to a
multiracial democracy - also known for being the first black
president of South Africa, serving from
1994 to 1999.
NELSON MANDELA
Born in Ghana in Africa; he
served as the 7th
Secretary-General of the UN
Kofi Annan
Author of Priesy
Desmond Tutu
Author of Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe
Author of Actress
Charlize Theron
Author of Poems, “My Black is Beautiful (Woman)”
and “My Black is Beautiful (Man)”
Naomi Johnson
Author of Short Story, “A Private Experience”
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Author of Short Story, “Inscape”
Yaa Gyasi
Author of Short Story, “War for God”
Zaynab Quadri
Author of “The Sack”
Namwali Serpell
officially Republic of Zimbabwe,
formerly (1911–64) Southern Rhodesia,
(1964–79) Rhodesia, or (1979–80)
Zimbabwe Rhodesia
ZIMBABWE
- born into a farming family in 1947
- raised in the Chivhu area of Zimbabwe
- worked with the Forestry Commission
before joining Textbook Sales - From 1975 to 1981, he worked at the
Literature Bureau as an editor, and at
Zimbabwe Publishing House for the
next five years. - In 1985-87 he was Writer in Residence
at the University of Zimbabwe, and
since then he has worked as a
free-lance writer, script writer and
editor. - two collections of children’s stories,
Stories from a Shona Childhood and
One Day Long Ago (Baobab Books,
1989 and 1991); the former won him the
Noma Award.
CHARLES MUNGOSHI
- also known as The West Indies
NORTH AMERICA, THE CARRIBEAN
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC
- second largest and most diverse
Caribbean country - Surrounded by the Atlantic Ocean on
the north and the Caribbean Sea on
the south, our lush tropical island
paradise
- Born in New York City in 1950, Julia
Alvarez’s parents returned to their
native country, Dominican Republic,
shortly after her birth. Ten years later,
the family was forced to flee to the
United States because of her father’s
involvement in a plot to overthrow the
dictator, Trujillo.
JULIA ALVAREZ
- Novels (How the García Girls Lost Their
Accents, In the Time of the Butterflies,
¡Yo!, In the Name of Salomé, Saving the
World, Afterlife), collections of poems
(Homecoming, The Other Side/ El Otro
Lado, The Woman I Kept to Myself),
nonfiction (Something to Declare, Once
Upon A Quinceañera, and A Wedding
in Haiti), and numerous books for
young readers (including the Tía Lola
Stories series, Before We Were Free,
finding miracles, Return to Sender and
Where Do They Go?).
JULIA ALVAREZ
- Pura Belpré and Américas Awards for
her books for young readers, the
Hispanic Heritage Award, and the F.
Scott Fitzgerald Award. - In 2013, she received the National
Medal of Arts from President Obama.
JULIA ALVAREZ
- educator and literary critic
- became a naturalized Cuban citizen
- a feminist and a humanist,she lectured
during much of her career, advocating
intellectual study for women - Parents: Francisco Henríquez y
Carvajal and Salomé Ureña
CAMILA HENRÍQUEZ UREÑA
- was a Dominican poet and an early
proponent of women’s higher
education in the Dominican Republic
SALOME UREÑA
