African History and Literature Flashcards
Ancient Egyptians began using _____________ to accompany the dead.
Burial text
Ancient Egyptians began using _____________ to accompany the dead.
Burial text
Ancient Egyptians began using _____________ to accompany the dead.
Burial text
Creation narratives are passed on through _______
Oral Tradition
Creation narratives are passed on through _______
Oral Tradition
When was the expansion of Roman Empire, rise of Axum (Ethiopia), and African conversion to Christianity
300 to 700 AD
When did Khalif Omar conquered Egypt with Islamic troops and established Islamic presence through promotion of written literature.
639 to 641 AD
Since 700 AD, roughly 14 million Africans were sold through the ______?
Arab Slave Trade
The slaughter of 28 million Africans
Black Holocaust
What led Africans to carry with them their oral arts?
African diaspora
African folktales were widespread on the African continent and were carried to the _______, _________, and the __________ .
Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.
What pseudonym did Olaudah Equiano use for his auto biography?
Gustavus Vassa
When did the slaves sought the emancipation from foreign colonial powers
19th century
What was published in 1850s
Black journalism and secular writings
Works of literature were written in what language?
European and African languages.
When did writers justified the concept of “Africanness,” which led to the rejection of European culture in literature
1880s
By 1920 to 1930s African writings reflected ideas from what?
black nationalism and anti-colonial politics movements
asserted African identity and culture and denounced the colonization of Africa and when did this happen
Negritude movement from 1930s
In 1950s, _______ existed through the works of white South African writers in English.
Anti-Apartheid literature
The turn of the __________ gave rise to publishing African oratures.
20th century
At the University of Nairobi, Kenya, who called for the abolition of the English department to be replaced by a Department of African Literature and Languages to study African oral traditions?
Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Henry Owuor-Anyumba, and Taban Lo Liyong.
The 3 African writers were awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature from the year 1986, 1988, and 1991
Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in 1986; Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz in 1988 (the first prize-winning writer with Arabic as his native tongue), and South African writer Nadine Gordimer in 1991.
Who was the long-time political prisoner who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his leadership toward a democratic South Africa. Then in South Africa’s first multiracial elections in 1994 he was elected president.
Nelson Mandela
