African Flashcards
There are _____ nations which make up Africa. Each of these separate countries have their own history, culture, tribes, and traditions.
54
are literary works of the African continent. It consists of a body of work in different languages and various genres,
African Literature
ranging from oral literature
Swahili, Arabic, Zulu, Xhosa, Amharic, Yoruba
literature written in colonial languages
French, Portuguese, and English
Folktale tellers use __________________ techniques
call-response
(praise singer) will accompany a narrative with music
Griot
The first African writings to gain attention to the West were the poignant _______
slave narratives
It vividly described the horrors of slavery and the slave trade
slave narratives
French-speaking Africans in France, led by
Leopold Senghor
French-speaking Africans in France, led by Leopold Senghor were active in the
negritude movement
After _________, as Africans began demanding their independence, more African writers were published.
World War II
This spreading of African people, largely against their will, is called the
African Diaspora
is a system of racial segregation by the National Party government in South Africa from 1948 to 1994.
Apartheid
was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, becoming the firstAfricanlaureate.
Alongside his literary career, he has also worked as an actor and in theaters in Nigeria and Great Britain. His works include plays, poetry, novels, and essays.
He writes in English, but his works are rooted in his native Nigeria and the Yoruba culture, with its legends, tales, and traditions.
His writing also includes influences from Western traditions - from classical tragedies to modernist drama.
WOLE SOYINKA
“The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism.”
“The man dies in all who keep silent in the face of tyranny.”
“Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.”
WOLE SOYINKA
Born in Ogidi, Nigeria on November 16, 1930
He is a Nigerian novelist acclaimed for his unsentimental depictions of the social and psychological disorientation accompanying the imposition of Western customs and values upon traditional African society.
His particular concern was with emergent Africa at its moments of crisis.
His novels range in subject matter from the first contact of an African village with the white man to the educated African’s attempt to create a firmmoralorder out of the changing values in a large city.
CHINUA ACHEBE
“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”
“The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.”
“People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.”
CHINUA ACHEBE
is the firstnovelbyChinua Achebe, written in English and published in 1958.Things Fall Aparthelped create the Nigerian literary renaissance of the 1960s.
Things Fall Apart (1958)
It describes the simultaneous disintegration of its protagonistOkonkwo and of his village.
The novel was praised for its intelligent and realistic treatment of tribal beliefs and of psychological disintegration coincident with social unraveling.
Things Fall Apart (1958)
Born in Limuru, Kenya on January 5, 1938
Kenyan writer who was consideredEast Africa’sleading novelist.
His popularWeep Not, Child(1964) was the first majornovelin English by an East African.
Also known as one of Africa’s most articulate social critics.
As he became sensitized to the effects of colonialism in Africa, Ngugi adopted his traditional name and wrote in the Bantu language ofKenya’sKikuyupeople.
NGUGI WA THIONG’O
is the story of a Kikuyu family drawn into the struggle for Kenyan independence during the state of emergency and the Mau Mau rebellion.
Weep Not, Child (1964)
tells of lovers kept apart by the conflict between Christianity and traditional ways and beliefs and suggests that efforts to reunite a culturally dividedcommunityby means of Western education are doomed to failure.
The River Between (1965)
deals with social and economic problems in East Africa after independence, particularly the continued exploitation of peasants and workers by foreign business interests and a greedyindigenousbourgeoisie.
Petals of Blood (1977)
She is a Kenyan Queer Womyn speaker and performer.
Katwiwa is an award-winning, internationally touring poet, author, host, youth worker, social-justice speaker, teaching artist and workshop leader who has spent her life at the intersection of arts, education and activism.
Her work is heavily influenced by her heritage and her pan-African upbringing
MWENDE “FreeQuency” KATWIWA
a form of performancepoetrythat combines the elements of performance, writing, competition, and audience participation.
Slam poetry
The name_____came from how the audience has the power to praise or, sometimes, destroy a poem and from the high-energy performance style of the poets.
slam
