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African literature

Index African literature

African literature is literature of or from Africa and includes oral literature (or "orature", in the term coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu). [1]

310 relations: A Dry White Season (novel), A Gloriosa Família, A Grain of Wheat, A Man of the People, A Wreath for Udomo, Abena Busia, Abiola Irele, Abyssinian Chronicles, Academy, Adam Small (writer), Africa, African-American literature, Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden, Ahmadou Kourouma, Alan Paton, Albert Camus, Alex La Guma, Algeria, Ali Mazrui, Ama Ata Aidoo, Amos Tutuola, Anansi, André Brink, Angola, Anthills of the Savannah, Antjie Krog, Arabic, Arabic literature, Arménio Vieira, Arrow of God, Arthur Nortje, Ashanti people, Asian literature, Assia Djebar, Athol Fugard, Ayesha Harruna Attah, Ayi Kwei Armah, Àjàpá, Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀, Bai T. Moore, Ben Okri, Benjamin Sehene, Bessie Head, Bewketu Seyoum, Biafra, Birhanu Zerihun, Black Mamba Boy, Botswana, Breyten Breytenbach, Buchi Emecheta, ..., Burger's Daughter, Butterfly Burning, Cairo, Cairo Trilogy, Call and response, Camara Laye, Carcase for Hounds, Chaka (novel), Charles Mangua, Cheikh Hamidou Kane, Children of Gebelawi, Children's song, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chinua Achebe, Christiaan Barnard, Christopher Okigbo, Cinema of Africa, Colonialism, Confessions of a Gambler, Cry, the Beloved Country, Dalene Matthee, Dambudzo Marechera, Daniel O. Fagunwa, Daughters of Africa, David Rubadiri, Dennis Brutus, Discrimination, Disgrace, Don Mattera, Dox (poet), Efuru, Egypt, Elechi Amadi, Elie Rajaonarison, English language, Epic of Sundiata, Epic poetry, Epigram, Ethiopia, Eugène Marais, Everything Good Will Come, Existentialism, Fadhy Mtanga, Fez, Morocco, Flora Nwapa, French language, From a Crooked Rib, Fula language, Gabriel Okara, General History of Africa, Germano Almeida, Ghana, Ghana Empire, God's Bits of Wood, Gold Coast (region), Grand Prix of Literary Associations, Griot, Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess, Guinea, Hadrawi, Half of a Yellow Sun, Hare, Hausa language, Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo, Ibn Khaldun, Idu (novel), In the Fog of the Seasons' End, Ingrid Jonker, International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture, Ivory Coast, J. E. Casely Hayford, J. M. Coetzee, J. P. Clark, Jack Mapanje, Jacques Rabemananjara, Jan Vansina, Jared Angira, Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jonathan Kariara, José Craveirinha, José Eduardo Agualusa, José Luandino Vieira, July's People, K. Sello Duiker, Karel Schoeman, Kebra Nagast, Ken Saro-Wiwa, Kenya, Kill Me Quick, Kofi Anyidoho, Kofi Awoonor, Latin American literature, Léopold Sédar Senghor, Lenrie Peters, Lesotho, Lewis Nkosi, Liberty, Life & Times of Michael K, List of African writers by country, Literary award, Literature, Literature by country, London, Love song, Luanda, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Madagascar, Mahala, Malawi, Mali, Margaret Busby, Mariama Bâ, Marlene van Niekerk, Mário Pinto de Andrade, Meja Mwangi, Mhudi, Mia Couto, Midaq Alley (novel), Mine Boy (novel), Mohammed Dib, Mohammed Naseehu Ali, Mongane Wally Serote, Mongo Beti, Morocco, Moses Isegawa, Mozambique, Murder in the Cassava Patch, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel), Nadifa Mohamed, Nadine Gordimer, Naguib Mahfouz, Nawal El Saadawi, Négritude, Nervous Conditions, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, Nigeria, Nigerian Civil War, Nigerian literature, Nii Parkes, Nnedi Okorafor, No Longer at Ease, Nobel Prize, Noma Award for Publishing in Africa, Nuruddin Farah, Ny Avana Ramanantoanina, O dia das calças roladas, Oceanian literature, Okot p'Bitek, Olaudah Equiano, Olive Schreiner, Oral literature, Ousmane Sembène, Panegyric, Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, Pepetela, Petals of Blood, Peter Abrahams, Pio Zirimu, Play (theatre), Poetry in Africa, Portuguese language, Proverb, Purple Hibiscus (novel), Rayda Jacobs, Research in African Literatures, Riddle, Rwanda, Sahel, Sarah Ladipo Manyika, Season of Anomy, Season of Migration to the North, Sefi Atta, Senegal, Seychelles, Simon Gikandi, Slave narrative, Sleepwalking Land, So Long a Letter, Sol Plaatje, Somalia, Songhay languages, Sophiatown, South Africa, Susan Nalugwa Kiguli, Swahili coast, Swahili literature, Tahar Ben Jelloun, Tanzania, Tayeb Salih, Terrorism Act, 1967, The African Child, The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, The Beginning and the End (novel), The Black Hermit, The Bride Price, The Concubine (novel), The Conservationist, The Famished Road, The Gambia, The House of Hunger, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, The Interpreters, The Joys of Motherhood, The Orchard of Lost Souls, The Palm-Wine Drinkard, The Prophet of Zongo Street, The Sand Child, The Stone-Country, The Story of an African Farm, The Swallows of Kabul, Things Fall Apart, Thirteen Cents, This Blinding Absence of Light, Thomas Mofolo, Tijan Sallah, Timbuktu, Time of the Butcherbird, Togara Muzanenhamo, Tortoise, Tribal Scars, Tribalism, Trickster, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Tsotsi, Two Thousand Seasons, Ualalapi, Uganda, UNESCO, Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, University of Timbuktu, Utendi wa Tambuka, Véronique Tadjo, Viriato da Cruz, Warsan Shire, Ways of Dying, We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories, Weep Not, Child, Western literature, Wilton G. S. Sankawulo, Wizard of the Crow, Wole Soyinka, Woman at Point Zero, Work song, World War I, Xala, Yambo Ouologuem, Yasmina Khadra, Yoruba people, Yvonne Vera, Zahrah the Windseeker, Zakes Mda, Zimbabwe, 1789 in literature, 1911 in literature, 1935 in literature, 1948 in literature, 1962 in literature, 1986 in literature, 2010. Expand index (260 more) »

A Dry White Season (novel)

A Dry White Season (Afrikaans) is a 1979 novel by Afrikaner novelist André Brink.

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A Gloriosa Família

A Gloriosa Família is a novel by the Angolan author Pepetela published in 1997 by Dom Quixote (Lisbon).

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A Grain of Wheat

A Grain of Wheat is a novel by Kenyan novelist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o first published as part of the influential Heinemann African Writers Series.

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A Man of the People

A Man of the People (1966) is the fourth novel by Chinua Achebe.

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A Wreath for Udomo

A Wreath for Udomo is a 1956 novel by South African novelist Peter Abrahams.

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Abena Busia

Abena P. A. Busia (born 1953) is a Ghanaian writer, poet, feminist, lecturer and diplomat.

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Abiola Irele

Francis Abiola Irele (commonly Abiola Irele, 22 May 1936 – 2 July 2017) was a Nigerian academic best known as the doyen of Africanist literary scholars worldwide.

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Abyssinian Chronicles

Abyssinian Chronicles is a 1998 novel by Ugandan author Moses Isegawa.

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Academy

An academy (Attic Greek: Ἀκαδήμεια; Koine Greek Ἀκαδημία) is an institution of secondary education, higher learning, research, or honorary membership.

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Adam Small (writer)

Adam Small (21 December 1936 – 25 June 2016) was a South African writer who was involved in the Black Consciousness Movement and other activism.

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Africa

Africa is the world's second largest and second most-populous continent (behind Asia in both categories).

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African-American literature

African-American literature is the body of literature produced in the United States by writers of African descent.

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Afrika-Studiecentrum Leiden

The African Studies Centre (Afrika-Studiecentrum) is an independent scientific institute in the Netherlands that undertakes social-science research on Africa with the aim of promoting a better understanding of historical, current and future social developments in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Ahmadou Kourouma

Ahmadou Kourouma (24 November 1927 Boundiali – 11 December 2003 Lyon) was an Ivorian novelist.

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Alan Paton

Alan Stewart Paton (11 January 1903 – 12 April 1988) was a South African author and anti-apartheid activist.

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Albert Camus

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist.

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Alex La Guma

Alex La Guma (20 February 1924 – 11 October 1985) was a South African novelist, leader of the South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) and a defendant in the Treason Trial, whose works helped characterise the movement against the apartheid era in South Africa.

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Algeria

Algeria (الجزائر, familary Algerian Arabic الدزاير; ⴷⵣⴰⵢⴻⵔ; Dzayer; Algérie), officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a sovereign state in North Africa on the Mediterranean coast.

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Ali Mazrui

Ali Al'amin Mazrui (24 February 1933 – 12 October 2014), was an academic professor, and political writer on African and Islamic studies and North-South relations.

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Ama Ata Aidoo

Ama Ata Aidoo, née Christina Ama Aidoo was born on 23 March 1942 in Saltpond.

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Amos Tutuola

Amos Tutuola (20 June 1920 – 8 June 1997) was a Nigerian writer who wrote books based in part on Yoruba folk-tales.

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Anansi

Anansi is an Akan folktale character.

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André Brink

André Philippus Brink, (29 May 1935 – 6 February 2015) was a South African novelist.

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Angola

Angola, officially the Republic of Angola (República de Angola; Kikongo, Kimbundu and Repubilika ya Ngola), is a country in Southern Africa.

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Anthills of the Savannah

Anthills of the Savannah is a 1987 novel by Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe.

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Antjie Krog

Antjie Krog (born 23 October 1952) is a South African poet, academic, and writer.

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Arabic

Arabic (العَرَبِيَّة) or (عَرَبِيّ) or) is a Central Semitic language that first emerged in Iron Age northwestern Arabia and is now the lingua franca of the Arab world. It is named after the Arabs, a term initially used to describe peoples living from Mesopotamia in the east to the Anti-Lebanon mountains in the west, in northwestern Arabia, and in the Sinai peninsula. Arabic is classified as a macrolanguage comprising 30 modern varieties, including its standard form, Modern Standard Arabic, which is derived from Classical Arabic. As the modern written language, Modern Standard Arabic is widely taught in schools and universities, and is used to varying degrees in workplaces, government, and the media. The two formal varieties are grouped together as Literary Arabic (fuṣḥā), which is the official language of 26 states and the liturgical language of Islam. Modern Standard Arabic largely follows the grammatical standards of Classical Arabic and uses much of the same vocabulary. However, it has discarded some grammatical constructions and vocabulary that no longer have any counterpart in the spoken varieties, and has adopted certain new constructions and vocabulary from the spoken varieties. Much of the new vocabulary is used to denote concepts that have arisen in the post-classical era, especially in modern times. During the Middle Ages, Literary Arabic was a major vehicle of culture in Europe, especially in science, mathematics and philosophy. As a result, many European languages have also borrowed many words from it. Arabic influence, mainly in vocabulary, is seen in European languages, mainly Spanish and to a lesser extent Portuguese, Valencian and Catalan, owing to both the proximity of Christian European and Muslim Arab civilizations and 800 years of Arabic culture and language in the Iberian Peninsula, referred to in Arabic as al-Andalus. Sicilian has about 500 Arabic words as result of Sicily being progressively conquered by Arabs from North Africa, from the mid 9th to mid 10th centuries. Many of these words relate to agriculture and related activities (Hull and Ruffino). Balkan languages, including Greek and Bulgarian, have also acquired a significant number of Arabic words through contact with Ottoman Turkish. Arabic has influenced many languages around the globe throughout its history. Some of the most influenced languages are Persian, Turkish, Spanish, Urdu, Kashmiri, Kurdish, Bosnian, Kazakh, Bengali, Hindi, Malay, Maldivian, Indonesian, Pashto, Punjabi, Tagalog, Sindhi, and Hausa, and some languages in parts of Africa. Conversely, Arabic has borrowed words from other languages, including Greek and Persian in medieval times, and contemporary European languages such as English and French in modern times. Classical Arabic is the liturgical language of 1.8 billion Muslims and Modern Standard Arabic is one of six official languages of the United Nations. All varieties of Arabic combined are spoken by perhaps as many as 422 million speakers (native and non-native) in the Arab world, making it the fifth most spoken language in the world. Arabic is written with the Arabic alphabet, which is an abjad script and is written from right to left, although the spoken varieties are sometimes written in ASCII Latin from left to right with no standardized orthography.

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Arabic literature

Arabic literature (الأدب العربي / ALA-LC: al-Adab al-‘Arabī) is the writing, both prose and poetry, produced by writers in the Arabic language.

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Arménio Vieira

Arménio Adroaldo Vieira e Silva (born January 29, 1941 in Praia, Cape Verde) is a Cape Verdean and a Portuguese writer, poet and journalist.

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Arrow of God

Arrow of God is a 1964 novel by Chinua Achebe, his third.

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Arthur Nortje

Arthur Kenneth Nortje (16 December 1942 – 11 December 1970) was a South African poet.

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Ashanti people

Ashanti also known as Asante are an ethnic group native to the Ashanti Region of modern-day Ghana.

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Asian literature

Asian literature is the literature produced in Asia.

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Assia Djebar

Fatima-Zohra Imalayen (30 June 1936 – 6 February 2015), known by her pen name Assia Djebar (آسيا جبار), was an Algerian novelist, translator and filmmaker.

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Athol Fugard

Harold Athol Lanigan Fugard OIS (born 11 June 1932) is a South African playwright, novelist, actor, and director who writes in South African English.

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Ayesha Harruna Attah

Ayesha Harruna Attah (born 1983) is a Ghanaian-born fiction writer.

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Ayi Kwei Armah

Ayi Kwei Armah (born 28 October 1939) is a Ghanaian writer.

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Àjàpá

Àjàpá (or Ijàpá) is the trickster tortoise in Yoruba folktales.

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Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀

Ògbójú Ọdẹ nínú Igbó Irúnmalẹ̀ (English title: The Forest of a Thousand Daemons; Proper translation: A Brave Hunter in the Forest of Demons) is a 1938 novel by D.O. Fagunwa.

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Bai T. Moore

Bai Tamia Johnson Moore (October 12, 1916 – January 10, 1988), commonly known by his pen name Bai T. Moore, was a Liberian poet, novelist, folklorist and essayist.

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Ben Okri

Ben Okri OBE FRSL (born 15 March 1959) is a Nigerian poet and novelist.

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Benjamin Sehene

Benjamin Sehene (born 1959) is a Rwandan author whose work primarily focuses on questions of identity and the events surrounding the Rwandan genocide.

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Bessie Head

Bessie Amelia Emery Head, known as Bessie Head (6 July 1937 – 17 April 1986), though born in South Africa, is usually considered Botswana's most influential writer.

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Bewketu Seyoum

Bewketu Seyoum (Gee'z ግዕዝ፤ በዕውቀቱ ስዩም) is an Ethiopian writer from Mankusa (gee'z ግዕዝ ፤ ደብረ ማርቆስ), northwest of Addis Ababa.

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Biafra

Biafra, officially the Republic of Biafra, was a secessionist state in West Africa which existed from 30 May 1967 to January 1970; it was made up of the states in the Eastern Region of Nigeria.

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Birhanu Zerihun

Berhanu Zerihun (1933/4 – 1987) was an Ethiopian writer noted for his clear and crisp writing style, which contrasted against the more complex writing style popular in his time.

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Black Mamba Boy

Black Mamba Boy is a 2009 novel by the Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed.

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Botswana

Botswana, officially the Republic of Botswana (Lefatshe la Botswana), is a landlocked country located in Southern Africa.

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Breyten Breytenbach

Breyten Breytenbach (born 16 September 1939) is a South African writer and painter known for his opposition to apartheid, and consequent imprisonment by the South African government.

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Buchi Emecheta

Florence Onyebuchi "Buchi" Emecheta OBE, was born on 21 July 1944 – 25 January 2017.

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Burger's Daughter

Burger's Daughter is a political and historical novel by the South African Nobel Prize in Literature-winner Nadine Gordimer, first published in the United Kingdom in June 1979 by Jonathan Cape.

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Butterfly Burning

Butterfly Burning is a novel by Zimbabwean writer Yvonne Vera that was first published on January 1, 1998.

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Cairo

Cairo (القاهرة) is the capital of Egypt.

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Cairo Trilogy

The Cairo Trilogy (الثلاثية (The Trilogy) or ثلاثية القاهرة (The Cairo Trilogy)) is a trilogy of novels written by the Egyptian novelist and Nobel Prize winner Naguib Mahfouz, and one of the prime works of his literary career.

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Call and response

Call and response is a form of interaction between a speaker and an audience in which the speaker's statements ("calls") are punctuated by responses from the listeners.

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Camara Laye

Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was an African writer from Guinea.

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Carcase for Hounds

Carcase for Hounds is a novel by Kenyan writer Meja Mwangi first published in 1974.

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Chaka (novel)

Chaka is the most famous novel by the writer Thomas Mofolo of Lesotho.

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Charles Mangua

Charles Mangua (born 1939) is a Kenyan fiction writer.

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Cheikh Hamidou Kane

Cheikh Hamidou Kane (born 2 April 1928 in Matam) is a Senegalese writer best known for his prize-winning novel L'Aventure ambiguë (Ambiguous Adventure), about the interactions of western and African cultures.

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Children of Gebelawi

Children of Gebelawi, (أولاد حارتنا) is a novel by the Egyptian writer and Nobel laureate Naguib Mahfouz.

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Children's song

A children's song may be a nursery rhyme set to music, a song that children invent and share among themselves or a modern creation intended for entertainment, use in the home or education.

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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (was born on 15 September 1977) is a Nigerian novelist, writer of short stories, and nonfiction.

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Chinua Achebe

Chinua Achebe (born Albert Chinụalụmọgụ Achebe, 16 November 1930 – 21 March 2013) was a Nigerian novelist, poet, professor, and critic.

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Christiaan Barnard

Christiaan Neethling Barnard (8 November 1922 – 2 September 2001) was a South African cardiac surgeon who performed the world's first human-to-human heart transplant on 3 December 1967 at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.

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Christopher Okigbo

Christopher Ifekandu Okigbo (16 August 1932 – 1967) was a Nigerian poet, teacher, and librarian, who died fighting for the independence of Biafra.

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Cinema of Africa

African cinema is film production in Africa.

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Colonialism

Colonialism is the policy of a polity seeking to extend or retain its authority over other people or territories, generally with the aim of developing or exploiting them to the benefit of the colonizing country and of helping the colonies modernize in terms defined by the colonizers, especially in economics, religion and health.

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Confessions of a Gambler

Confessions of a Gambler is a 2007 film that depicts a woman's struggles in life, and how she turns to gambling and later becomes addicted.

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Cry, the Beloved Country

Cry, the Beloved Country is a novel by Alan Paton, published in 1948.

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Dalene Matthee

Dalene Matthee (13 October 1938 – 20 February 2005) was a South African author best known for her four Forest Novels, written in and around the Knysna Forest.

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Dambudzo Marechera

Dambudzo Marechera (4 June 1952 – 18 August 1987) was a Zimbabwean novelist, short story writer, playwright and poet.

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Daniel O. Fagunwa

Chief Daniel Olorunfẹmi Fagunwa MBE (1903 – 9 December 1963), popularly known as D. O. Fagunwa, was a Nigerian author who pioneered the Yoruba-language novel.

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Daughters of Africa

Daughters of Africa: An International Anthology of Words and Writings by Women of African Descent from the Ancient Egyptian to the Present is a compilation of orature and literature by more than 200 women from Africa and the African diaspora, edited and introduced by Margaret Busby,Tonya Bolden,, Black Enterprise, March 1993, p. 12.

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David Rubadiri

James David Rubadiri (born 19 July 1930 in Liuli) is a Malawian diplomat, academic and poet, playwright and novelist.

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Dennis Brutus

Dennis Vincent Brutus (28 November 1924 – 26 December 2009) was a South African activist, educator, journalist and poet best known for his campaign to have South Africa banned from the Olympic Games due to its controversial racial policy of apartheid.

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Discrimination

In human social affairs, discrimination is treatment or consideration of, or making a distinction in favor of or against, a person based on the group, class, or category to which the person is perceived to belong.

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Disgrace

Disgrace is a novel by J. M. Coetzee, published in 1999.

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Don Mattera

Donato Francisco Mattera (born 1935), better known as Don Mattera, is a South African poet and author.

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Dox (poet)

Jean Verdi Salomon Razakandrainy (1913-1978), commonly known as Dox, was a Malagasy writer and poet considered one of the most important literary figures in the country's history.

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Efuru

Efuru is a novel by Flora Nwapa which was published in 1966 as number 26 in Heinemann's African Writers Series, making it the first book written by a Nigerian woman to be published.

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Egypt

Egypt (مِصر, مَصر, Khēmi), officially the Arab Republic of Egypt, is a transcontinental country spanning the northeast corner of Africa and southwest corner of Asia by a land bridge formed by the Sinai Peninsula.

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Elechi Amadi

Elechi Amadi (12 May 1934 – 29 June 2016) was a former member of the Nigerian Armed Forces.

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Elie Rajaonarison

Elie Rajaonarison (November 15, 1951 - November 27, 2010) was a poet, artist, professor and civil servant from Madagascar.

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English language

English is a West Germanic language that was first spoken in early medieval England and is now a global lingua franca.

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Epic of Sundiata

The Sundiata Keita or Epic of Sundiata (also referred to as the Sundiata Epic or Sunjata Epic) is an epic poem of the Malinke people and tells the story of the hero Sundiata Keita (died 1255), the founder of the Mali Empire.

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Epic poetry

An epic poem, epic, epos, or epopee is a lengthy narrative poem, ordinarily involving a time beyond living memory in which occurred the extraordinary doings of the extraordinary men and women who, in dealings with the gods or other superhuman forces, gave shape to the moral universe that their descendants, the poet and his audience, must understand to understand themselves as a people or nation.

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Epigram

An epigram is a brief, interesting, memorable, and sometimes surprising or satirical statement.

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Ethiopia

Ethiopia (ኢትዮጵያ), officially the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia (የኢትዮጵያ ፌዴራላዊ ዲሞክራሲያዊ ሪፐብሊክ, yeʾĪtiyoṗṗya Fēdēralawī Dēmokirasīyawī Rīpebilīk), is a country located in the Horn of Africa.

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Eugène Marais

Eugène Nielen Marais (9 January 1871 – 29 March 1936) was a South African lawyer, naturalist, poet and writer.

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Everything Good Will Come

Everything Good Will Come is a coming-of-age novel by Sefi Atta about a girl growing into a woman in postcolonial Nigeria and England.

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Existentialism

Existentialism is a tradition of philosophical inquiry associated mainly with certain 19th and 20th-century European philosophers who, despite profound doctrinal differences,Oxford Companion to Philosophy, ed.

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Fadhy Mtanga

Fadhili Frank Mtanga (born 14 November 1981) popularly known by his pen name Fadhy Mtanga is a Tanzanian creative writer, blogger, photographer, graphic designer and social worker.

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Fez, Morocco

Fez (فاس, Berber: Fas, ⴼⴰⵙ, Fès) is a city in northern inland Morocco and the capital of the Fas-Meknas administrative region.

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Flora Nwapa

Florence Nwanzuruahu Nkiru Nwapa (13 January 1931 – 16 October 1993) was a Nigerian author who has been called the mother of modern African literature.

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French language

French (le français or la langue française) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family.

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From a Crooked Rib

From a Crooked Rib is the first published novel by Somali novelist Nuruddin Farah.

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Fula language

Fula Laurie Bauer, 2007, The Linguistics Student’s Handbook, Edinburgh, also known as Fulani or Fulah (Fula: Fulfulde, Pulaar, Pular; Peul), is a language spoken as a set of various dialects in a continuum that stretches across some 20 countries in West and Central Africa.

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Gabriel Okara

Gabriel Imomotimi Okara (born 24 April 1921) is a Nigerian poet and novelist who was born in Bumoundi in Yenagoa, Bayelsa State, Nigeria.

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General History of Africa

The is a two-phase project undertaken by UNESCO from 1964 to the present.

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Germano Almeida

Germano Almeida (born 31 July 1945) is a Cape Verdean author and lawyer.

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Ghana

Ghana, officially the Republic of Ghana, is a unitary presidential constitutional democracy, located along the Gulf of Guinea and Atlantic Ocean, in the subregion of West Africa.

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Ghana Empire

The Ghana Empire (700 until 1240), properly known as Awkar (Ghana or Ga'na being the title of its ruler), was located in the area of present-day southeastern Mauritania and western Mali.

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God's Bits of Wood

God's Bits of Wood is a 1960 novel by the Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène that concerns a railroad strike in colonial Senegal of the 1940s.

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Gold Coast (region)

The Gold Coast was the name for a region on the Gulf of Guinea in West Africa which was rich in gold and also in petroleum, sweet crude oil and natural gas.

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Grand Prix of Literary Associations

The Grand Prix of Literary Associations (GPLA) were launched in 2013 in Cameroon, in partnership with Brasseries du Cameroun and sponsorship by Castel Beer.

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Griot

A griot, jali or jeli (djeli or djéli in French spelling) is a West African historian, storyteller, praise singer, poet and/or musician.

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Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess

Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess is an 1891 novel by Joseph Jeffrey Walters and is the earliest surviving novel published in English by a Black African.

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Guinea

Guinea, officially the Republic of Guinea (République de Guinée), is a country on the western coast of Africa.

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Hadrawi

Hadrawi (born Mohamed Ibrahim Warsame in 1943) (Maxamed Ibraahim Warsame (Hadraawi), محمد ابراهيم وارسام هدراوى) is a prominent Somali poet and songwriter.

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Half of a Yellow Sun

Half of a Yellow Sun is a novel by Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Hare

Hares and jackrabbits are leporids belonging to the genus Lepus.

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Hausa language

Hausa (Yaren Hausa or Harshen Hausa) is the Chadic language (a branch of the Afroasiatic language family) with the largest number of speakers, spoken as a first language by some 27 million people, and as a second language by another 20 million.

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Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo

Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo (1903, Siyamu/Pietermaritzburg (Natal) – 20 October 1956, Durban) is one of the major founding figures of South African literature and perhaps the first prolific African creative writer in English.

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Ibn Khaldun

Ibn Khaldun (أبو زيد عبد الرحمن بن محمد بن خلدون الحضرمي.,; 27 May 1332 – 17 March 1406) was a fourteenth-century Arab historiographer and historian.

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Idu (novel)

Idu is a 1970 novel and the second novel put out by Nigerian novelist Flora Nwapa.

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In the Fog of the Seasons' End

In the Fog of the Seasons' End is a 1972 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.

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Ingrid Jonker

Ingrid Jonker (19 September 1933 – 19 July 1965) (OIS), was a South African poet.

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International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture

The International Research Confederacy on African Literature and Culture (IRCALC) is an online non-profit, non-governmental confederation of writers, scholars and researchers from all over the world.

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Ivory Coast

Ivory Coast, also known as Côte d'Ivoire and officially as the Republic of Côte d'Ivoire, is a sovereign state located in West Africa.

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J. E. Casely Hayford

Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford, MBE (29 September 1866 – 11 August 1930), also known as Ekra-Agiman, was a Ghanaian journalist, editor, author, lawyer, educator, and politician who supported pan-African nationalism.

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J. M. Coetzee

John Maxwell Coetzee (born 9 February 1940) is a South African novelist, essayist, linguist, translator and recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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J. P. Clark

John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo (born 6 April 1935) is a Nigerian poet and playwright, who has also published as J. P. Clark and John Pepper Clark.

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Jack Mapanje

Jack Mapanje (born 25 March 1944), ProQuest Learning: Literature.

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Jacques Rabemananjara

Jacques Rabemananjara (23 June 1913 – 1 April 2005) was a Malagasy politician, playwright and poet.

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Jan Vansina

Jan Vansina (14 September 1929 – 8 February 2017) was a Belgian historian and anthropologist regarded as an authority on the history of Central Africa.

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Jared Angira

Jared Angira (born 21 November 1947) is a Kenyan poet.

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Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo

Jean-Joseph Rabearivelo (4 March 1901 or 1903 – 22 June 1937), born Joseph-Casimir Rabearivelo, is widely considered to be Africa's first modern poet and the greatest literary artist of Madagascar.

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Jean-Paul Sartre

Jean-Paul Charles Aymard Sartre (21 June 1905 – 15 April 1980) was a French philosopher, playwright, novelist, political activist, biographer, and literary critic.

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Jonathan Kariara

Jonathan Kariara (1935–1993) was a Kenyan poet who wrote works including "A Leopard Lives in a Muu Tree".

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José Craveirinha

José Craveirinha (28 May 1922 - 6 February 2003) was a Mozambican journalist, story writer and poet, who is today considered the greatest poet of Mozambique.

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José Eduardo Agualusa

José Eduardo Agualusa Alves da Cunha (born December 13, 1960, in modern-day Huambo, Angola) is an Angolan journalist and writer of Portuguese and Brazilian descent.

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José Luandino Vieira

José Luandino Vieira (born José Vieira Mateus da Graça on 4 May 1935) is an Angolan writer of short fiction and novels.

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July's People

July's People is a 1981 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.

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K. Sello Duiker

Kabelo "Sello" Duiker, (13 April 1974 – 19 January 2005), was a South African novelist.

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Karel Schoeman

Karel Schoeman (26 October 1939 in Trompsburg, South Africa – 1 May 2017 in Bloemfontein, South Africa) was a South African novelist, historian, translator and man of letters.

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Kebra Nagast

The Kebra Nagast (var. Kebra Negast, Ge'ez ክብረ ነገሥት, kəbrä nägäśt) is a 14th-century account written in Ge'ez, an ancient South Semitic language that originated in modern-day Ethiopia and Eritrea.

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Ken Saro-Wiwa

Kenule Beeson "Ken" Saro-Wiwa (10 October 1941 – 10 November 1995) was a Nigerian writer, television producer, environmental activist, and winner of the Right Livelihood Award and the Goldman Environmental Prize.

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Kenya

Kenya, officially the Republic of Kenya, is a country in Africa with its capital and largest city in Nairobi.

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Kill Me Quick

Kill Me Quick, published in 1973, is a novel by Meja Mwangi.

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Kofi Anyidoho

Kofi Anyidoho (born 25 July 1947), ProQuest Biographies, 2006.

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Kofi Awoonor

Kofi Awoonor (born George Kofi Nyidevu Awoonor-Williams; 1935 – 21 September 2013) was a Ghanaian poet and author whose work combined the poetic traditions of his native Ewe people and contemporary and religious symbolism to depict Africa during decolonization.

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Latin American literature

Latin American literature consists of the oral and written literature of Latin America in several languages, particularly in Spanish, Portuguese, and the indigenous languages of the Americas as well as literature of the United States written in the Spanish language.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor

Léopold Sédar Senghor (9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician, and cultural theorist who for two decades served as the first president of Senegal (1960–80).

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Lenrie Peters

Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist.

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Lesotho

Lesotho officially the Kingdom of Lesotho ('Muso oa Lesotho), is an enclaved country in southern Africa.

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Lewis Nkosi

Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African writer, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s.

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Liberty

Liberty, in politics, consists of the social, political, and economic freedoms to which all community members are entitled.

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Life & Times of Michael K

Life & Times of Michael K is a 1983 novel by South African-born writer J. M. Coetzee.

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List of African writers by country

This is a list of prominent and notable writers from Africa.

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Literary award

A literary award is an award presented in recognition of a particularly lauded literary piece or body of work.

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Literature

Literature, most generically, is any body of written works.

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Literature by country

This is a list of literature pages categorized by country, language, or cultural group.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Love song

A love song is a song about romantic love, falling in love, heartbreak after a breakup, and the feelings that these experiences bring.

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Luanda

Luanda, formerly named São Paulo da Assunção de Loanda, is the capital and largest city in Angola, and the country's most populous and important city, primary port and major industrial, cultural and urban centre.

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Luis Bernardo Honwana

Luís Bernado Honwana (born 1942) is a Mozambican author.

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Madagascar

Madagascar (Madagasikara), officially the Republic of Madagascar (Repoblikan'i Madagasikara; République de Madagascar), and previously known as the Malagasy Republic, is an island country in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of East Africa.

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Mahala

The word Mahala or Mahalla is used in many languages and countries meaning neighborhood or location originated in Arabic محلة mähallä, from the root meaning ‘to settle’, ‘to occupy’ derived from the verb halla (to untie), as in untying a pack horse or camel to make a camp.

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Malawi

Malawi (or; or maláwi), officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali (République du Mali), is a landlocked country in West Africa, a region geologically identified with the West African Craton.

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Margaret Busby

Margaret Busby OBE, Hon.

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Mariama Bâ

Mariama Bâ (April 17, 1929 – August 17, 1981) was a Senegalese author and feminist, who wrote in French.

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Marlene van Niekerk

Marlene van Niekerk is a South African author who is best known for her novel Triomf.

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Mário Pinto de Andrade

Mário Coelho Pinto de Andrade (21 August 1928 – 26 August 1990) was an Angolan poet and politician.

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Meja Mwangi

Meja Mwangi (born 27 December 1948) is one of Kenya's leading novelists.

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Mhudi

Mhudi is a South African novel by Sol Plaatje first published in 1930, and one of the first published African novels and the first novel by a black African to be published in English.

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Mia Couto

António Emílio Leite Couto (born 5 July 1955), better known as Mia Couto, is a Mozambican writer and the winner of the 2014 Neustadt International Prize for Literature.

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Midaq Alley (novel)

This article is about the Naguib Mahfouz novel.

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Mine Boy (novel)

Mine Boy is a 1946 novel by South African novelist Peter Abrahams.

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Mohammed Dib

Mohammed Dib (محمد ديب; 21 July 1920 – 2 May 2003) was an Algerian author.

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Mohammed Naseehu Ali

Mohammed Naseehu Ali (born 1971)James M. Manheim,, Contemporary Black Biography.

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Mongane Wally Serote

Mongane Wally Serote (born 8 May 1944) is a South African poet and writer.

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Mongo Beti

Alexandre Biyidi Awala (30 June 1932 – 8 October 2001), known as Mongo Beti or Eza Boto, was a Cameroonian writer.

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Morocco

Morocco (officially known as the Kingdom of Morocco, is a unitary sovereign state located in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is one of the native homelands of the indigenous Berber people. Geographically, Morocco is characterised by a rugged mountainous interior, large tracts of desert and a lengthy coastline along the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. Morocco has a population of over 33.8 million and an area of. Its capital is Rabat, and the largest city is Casablanca. Other major cities include Marrakesh, Tangier, Salé, Fes, Meknes and Oujda. A historically prominent regional power, Morocco has a history of independence not shared by its neighbours. Since the foundation of the first Moroccan state by Idris I in 788 AD, the country has been ruled by a series of independent dynasties, reaching its zenith under the Almoravid dynasty and Almohad dynasty, spanning parts of Iberia and northwestern Africa. The Marinid and Saadi dynasties continued the struggle against foreign domination, and Morocco remained the only North African country to avoid Ottoman occupation. The Alaouite dynasty, the current ruling dynasty, seized power in 1631. In 1912, Morocco was divided into French and Spanish protectorates, with an international zone in Tangier, and regained its independence in 1956. Moroccan culture is a blend of Berber, Arab, West African and European influences. Morocco claims the non-self-governing territory of Western Sahara, formerly Spanish Sahara, as its Southern Provinces. After Spain agreed to decolonise the territory to Morocco and Mauritania in 1975, a guerrilla war arose with local forces. Mauritania relinquished its claim in 1979, and the war lasted until a cease-fire in 1991. Morocco currently occupies two thirds of the territory, and peace processes have thus far failed to break the political deadlock. Morocco is a constitutional monarchy with an elected parliament. The King of Morocco holds vast executive and legislative powers, especially over the military, foreign policy and religious affairs. Executive power is exercised by the government, while legislative power is vested in both the government and the two chambers of parliament, the Assembly of Representatives and the Assembly of Councillors. The king can issue decrees called dahirs, which have the force of law. He can also dissolve the parliament after consulting the Prime Minister and the president of the constitutional court. Morocco's predominant religion is Islam, and the official languages are Arabic and Berber, with Berber being the native language of Morocco before the Arab conquest in the 600s AD. The Moroccan dialect of Arabic, referred to as Darija, and French are also widely spoken. Morocco is a member of the Arab League, the Union for the Mediterranean and the African Union. It has the fifth largest economy of Africa.

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Moses Isegawa

Moses Isegawa, also known as Sey Wava (born 10 August 1963), is a Ugandan author.

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Mozambique

Mozambique, officially the Republic of Mozambique (Moçambique or República de Moçambique) is a country in Southeast Africa bordered by the Indian Ocean to the east, Tanzania to the north, Malawi and Zambia to the northwest, Zimbabwe to the west, and Swaziland and South Africa to the southwest.

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Murder in the Cassava Patch

Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968) is a novella by Liberian Bai T. Moore.

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My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (novel)

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts is a novel by Nigerian writer Amos Tutuola, published in 1954.

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Nadifa Mohamed

Nadifa Mohamed (Nadiifa Maxamed, نظيفة محمد) (born 1981 in Hargeisa, Somalia) is a Somali-British novelist.

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Nadine Gordimer

Nadine Gordimer (20 November 1923 – 13 July 2014) was a South African writer, political activist and recipient of the 1991 Nobel Prize in Literature.

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Naguib Mahfouz

Naguib Mahfouz (نجيب محفوظ,; December 11, 1911 – August 30, 2006) was an Egyptian writer who won the 1988 Nobel Prize for Literature.

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Nawal El Saadawi

Nawal El Saadawi (نوال السعداوي, born 27 October 1931) is an Egyptian feminist writer, activist, physician, and psychiatrist.

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Négritude

Négritude is a framework of critique and literary theory, developed mainly by francophone intellectuals, writers, and politicians of the African diaspora during the 1930s.

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Nervous Conditions

Nervous Conditions is a novel by Zimbabwean author Tsitsi Dangarembga, first published in the United Kingdom in 1988 by the Women's Press.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (born 5 January 1938) is a Kenyan writer, formerly working in English and now working in Gikuyu.

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Nigeria

Nigeria, officially the Federal Republic of Nigeria is a federal republic in West Africa, bordering Benin in the west, Chad and Cameroon in the east, and Niger in the north.

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Nigerian Civil War

The Nigerian Civil War, commonly known as the Biafran War (6 July 1967 – 15 January 1970), was a war fought between the government of Nigeria and the secessionist state of Biafra.

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Nigerian literature

Nigerian literature is the literature of Nigeria which is written by Nigerians, for Nigerians and addresses Nigerian issues.

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Nii Parkes

Nii Ayikwei Parkes (born 1 April 1974), born in the United Kingdom to parents from Ghana, where he was raised, is a performance poet, writer, publisher and sociocultural commentator.

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Nnedi Okorafor

Nnedi Okorafor (full name: Nnedimma Nkemdili Okorafor; previously known as Nnedi Okorafor-Mbachu; translated from Igbo into English as "mother is good"; born April 8, 1974) is a Nigerian-American writer of fantasy and science fiction for both children and adults.

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No Longer at Ease

No Longer at Ease is a 1960 novel by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

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Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize (Swedish definite form, singular: Nobelpriset; Nobelprisen) is a set of six annual international awards bestowed in several categories by Swedish and Norwegian institutions in recognition of academic, cultural, or scientific advances.

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Noma Award for Publishing in Africa

The Noma Award for Publishing in Africa (French:Le Prix Noma de Publication en Afrique), which ran from 1980-2009, was an annual $10,000 prize for outstanding African writers and scholars who published in Africa.

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Nuruddin Farah

Nuruddin Farah (Nuuradiin Faarax, نورالدين فارح) (born 24 November 1945) is a Somali novelist.

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Ny Avana Ramanantoanina

Ny Avana Ramanantoanina (1891–1940) is among the most celebrated literary artists of Madagascar.

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O dia das calças roladas

O dia das calças roladas is a Capeverdean novel published in 1982 by Germano Almeida.

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Oceanian literature

Oceanian (Australia, Polynesia, Melanesia, Micronesia) literature developed in isolation from the rest of the world and in a unique geographic environment.

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Okot p'Bitek

Okot p'Bitek (7 June 1931 – 20 July 1982) was a Ugandan poet, who achieved wide international recognition for Song of Lawino, a long poem dealing with the tribulations of a rural African wife whose husband has taken up urban life and wishes everything to be westernised.

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Olaudah Equiano

Olaudah Equiano (c. 1745 – 31 March 1797), known in his lifetime as Gustavus Vassa, was a writer and abolitionist from the Igbo region of what is today southeastern Nigeria according to his memoir, or from South Carolina according to other sources.

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Olive Schreiner

Olive Schreiner (24 March 1855 – 11 December 1920) was a South African author, anti-war campaigner and intellectual.

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Oral literature

Oral literature or folk literature corresponds in the sphere of the spoken (oral) word to literature as literature operates in the domain of the written word.

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Ousmane Sembène

Ousmane Sembène (1 January 1923 – 9 June 2007), often credited in the French style as Sembène Ousmane in articles and reference works, was a Senegalese film director, producer and writer.

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Panegyric

A panegyric is a formal public speech, or (in later use) written verse, delivered in high praise of a person or thing, a generally highly studied and undiscriminating eulogy, not expected to be critical.

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Patricia Jabbeh Wesley

Patricia Jabbeh Wesley is an award winning Liberian (African Diaspora) poet and writer, author of five books of poetry, and a Liberian civil war survivor who immigrated to the United States with her family in 1991.

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Pepetela

Artur Carlos Maurício Pestana dos Santos (born 1941) is a major Angolan writer of fiction.

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Petals of Blood

Petals of Blood is a novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and first published in 1977.

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Peter Abrahams

Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (3 March 1919 – 18 January 2017), commonly known as Peter Abrahams, was a South African-born novelist, journalist and political commentator who in 1956 settled in Jamaica, where he lived for the rest of his life.

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Pio Zirimu

Pio Zirimu (died 1977) was a Ugandan linguist, scholar and literary theorist.

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Play (theatre)

A play is a form of literature written by a playwright, usually consisting of dialogue between characters, intended for theatrical performance rather than just reading.

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Poetry in Africa

African Poetry encompasses the wide variety of traditions arising from Africa's 55 countries and from evolving trends within different literary genres.

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Portuguese language

Portuguese (português or, in full, língua portuguesa) is a Western Romance language originating from the regions of Galicia and northern Portugal in the 9th century.

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Proverb

A proverb (from proverbium) is a simple and concrete saying, popularly known and repeated, that expresses a truth based on common sense or experience.

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Purple Hibiscus (novel)

Purple Hibiscus is a novel written by the Nigerian author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.

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Rayda Jacobs

Rayda Jacobs (born March 6, 1947) is a South African writer and film-maker.

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Research in African Literatures

Research in African Literatures is a triannual peer-reviewed academic journal covering African literary studies.

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Riddle

A riddle is a statement or question or phrase having a double or veiled meaning, put forth as a puzzle to be solved.

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Rwanda

Rwanda (U Rwanda), officially the Republic of Rwanda (Repubulika y'u Rwanda; République du Rwanda), is a sovereign state in Central and East Africa and one of the smallest countries on the African mainland.

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Sahel

The Sahel is the ecoclimatic and biogeographic zone of transition in Africa between the Sahara to the north and the Sudanian Savanna to the south.

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Sarah Ladipo Manyika

Sarah Ladipo Manyika (born 7 March 1968) is a British-Nigerian writer.

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Season of Anomy

Season of Anomy is the second novel of Nobel winning Nigerian playwright and critic Wole Soyinka.

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Season of Migration to the North

Season of Migration to the North (موسم الهجرة إلى الشمال) is a classic post-colonial Sudanese novel by the novelist Tayeb Salih.

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Sefi Atta

Sefi Atta (born 1964) is a prize-winning Nigerian author and playwright.

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Senegal

Senegal (Sénégal), officially the Republic of Senegal, is a country in West Africa.

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Seychelles

Seychelles (French), officially the Republic of Seychelles (République des Seychelles; Creole: Repiblik Sesel), is an archipelago and sovereign state in the Indian Ocean.

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Simon Gikandi

Simon E. Gikandi, born 30 September 1960, is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar.

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Slave narrative

The slave narrative is a type of literary work that is made up of the written accounts of enslaved Africans in Great Britain and its colonies, including the later United States, Canada, and Caribbean nations.

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Sleepwalking Land

Sleepwalking Land (in Portuguese: Terra Sonâmbula) is a novel written by Mia Couto, a Mozambican writer, first published in Portuguese in 1992 and translated into English by David Brookshaw in 2006.

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So Long a Letter

So Long a Letter (Une si longue lettre) is a semi-autobiographical epistolary novel originally written in French by the Senegalese writer Mariama Bâ.

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Sol Plaatje

Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje (9 October 1876 – 19 June 1932) was a South African intellectual, journalist, linguist, politician, translator and writer.

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Somalia

Somalia (Soomaaliya; aṣ-Ṣūmāl), officially the Federal Republic of SomaliaThe Federal Republic of Somalia is the country's name per Article 1 of the.

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Songhay languages

The Songhay or Songhai languages are a group of closely related languages/dialects centred on the middle stretches of the Niger River in the West African countries of Mali, Niger, Benin, Burkina Faso and Nigeria.

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Sophiatown

Sophiatown, also known as Sof'town or Kofifi, is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Susan Nalugwa Kiguli

Susan Nalugwa Kiguli (born 24 June 1969 in Luweero District, Uganda) is a Ugandan poet and literary scholar.

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Swahili coast

The Swahili Coast is a coastal area in Southeast Africa inhabited by the Swahili people.

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Swahili literature

Swahili literature is, generally speaking, literature written in the Swahili language, particularly by Swahili people of the East African coast and the neighboring islands.

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Tahar Ben Jelloun

Tahar Ben Jelloun (الطاهر بن جلون; born in Fes, French protectorate in Morocco, 1 December 1944) is a Moroccan writer.

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Tanzania

Tanzania, officially the United Republic of Tanzania (Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania), is a sovereign state in eastern Africa within the African Great Lakes region.

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Tayeb Salih

Tayeb Salih (الطيب صالح; 12 July 1929 – 18 February 2009) was a Sudanese writer.

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Terrorism Act, 1967

The Terrorism Act No 83 of 1967 was a law of the South African Apartheid regime until all except section 7 was repealed under the Internal Security and Intimidation Amendment Act 138 of 1991.

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The African Child

The African Child, originally written in French and published in 1953 as l’enfant noir, is an autobiographical novel, written by Camara Laye.

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The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born

The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born is the debut novel by Ghanaian writer Ayi Kwei Armah.

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The Beginning and the End (novel)

The Beginning and the End (بداية ونهاية) is a novel by Naguib Mahfouz, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1988.

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The Black Hermit

The Black Hermit was the first play by the Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiongʼo, and the first published East African play in English.

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The Bride Price

The Bride Price is a 1975 novel (first published in the UK by Allison & Busby and in the USA by George Braziller) by Nigerian writer Buchi Emecheta.

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The Concubine (novel)

The Concubine is the debut novel by Nigerian writer Elechi Amadi originally published in 1966 as part of the Heinemann African Writers Series.

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The Conservationist

The Conservationist is a 1974 novel by the South African writer Nadine Gordimer.

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The Famished Road

The Famished Road is a novel written by Nigerian author Ben Okri.

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The Gambia

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The House of Hunger

The House of Hunger (1978) is a short story collection that was the first book by Zimbabwean writer Dambudzo Marechera (1952–1987), published three years after he left university.

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The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano

The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, Or Gustavus Vassa, The African, first published in 1789 in London, at project Gutenberg.

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The Interpreters

The Interpreters were a Power pop band formed in Philadelphia in 1996.

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The Joys of Motherhood

The Joys of Motherhood is a novel written by Buchi Emecheta.

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The Orchard of Lost Souls

The Orchard of Lost Souls is a 2013 novel by the Somali-British author Nadifa Mohamed.

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The Palm-Wine Drinkard

The Palm-Wine Drinkard (subtitled "and His Dead Palm-Wine Tapster in the Dead's Town") is a novel published in 1952 by the Nigerian author Amos Tutuola.

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The Prophet of Zongo Street

The Prophet of Zongo Street is a collection of short stories by Ghanaian author Mohammed Naseehu Ali, first published in 2005.

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The Sand Child

The Sand Child (l'Enfant de sable) is a 1985 novel by Moroccan author Tahar Ben Jelloun.

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The Stone-Country

The Stone-Country is a 1967 novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.

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The Story of an African Farm

The Story of an African Farm (published in 1883 under the pseudonym Ralph Iron) was South African author Olive Schreiner's first published novel.

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The Swallows of Kabul

The Swallows of Kabul is a novel by Algerian writer Yasmina Khadra.

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Things Fall Apart

Things Fall Apart is a novel written by Nigerian author Chinua Achebe.

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Thirteen Cents

Thirteen Cents is the debut novel of South African author K. Sello Duiker.

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This Blinding Absence of Light

This Blinding Absence of Light (Cette aveuglante absence de lumière) is a 2001 novel by the Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun, translated from French by Linda Coverdale.

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Thomas Mofolo

Thomas Mokopu Mofolo (22 December 1876 – 8 September 1948) is considered to be the greatest Basotho author.

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Tijan Sallah

Tijan M. Sallah (born March 5, 1958) is a Gambian poet, short story writer, biographer and economist at the World Bank.

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Timbuktu

Timbuktu, also spelt Tinbuktu, Timbuctoo and Timbuktoo (Tombouctou; Koyra Chiini: Tumbutu), is an ancient city in Mali, situated north of the Niger River.

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Time of the Butcherbird

Time of the Butcherbird is the final novel by South African novelist Alex La Guma.

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Togara Muzanenhamo

Togara Muzanenhamo (born 1975) is a Zimbabwean poet born in Lusaka, Zambia, to Zimbabwean parents.

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Tortoise

Tortoises are a family, Testudinidae. Testudinidae is a Family under the order Testudines and suborder Cryptodira.

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Tribal Scars

Tribal Scars is a collection of short stories by Senegalese author Ousmane Sembène.

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Tribalism

Tribalism is the state of being organized by, or advocating for, tribes or tribal lifestyles.

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Trickster

In mythology, and in the study of folklore and religion, a trickster is a character in a story (god, goddess, spirit, man, woman, or anthropomorphisation), which exhibits a great degree of intellect or secret knowledge, and uses it to play tricks or otherwise disobey normal rules and conventional behaviour.

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Tsitsi Dangarembga

Tsitsi Dangarembga (born 1959) is a Zimbabwean author and filmmaker.

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Tsotsi

Tsotsi is a 2005 film directed by Gavin Hood and produced by Peter Fudakowski.

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Two Thousand Seasons

Two Thousand Seasons is a novel by Ghanaian novelist Ayi Kwei Armah.

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Ualalapi

Ualalapi is a novel by Mozambican writer Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa.

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Uganda

Uganda, officially the Republic of Uganda (Jamhuri ya Uganda), is a landlocked country in East Africa.

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UNESCO

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO; Organisation des Nations unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture) is a specialized agency of the United Nations (UN) based in Paris.

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Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa

Francisco Esaú Cossa (pseudonym Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa, also spelled as Ungulani ba ka Khosa) is a Mozambican writer born August 1, 1957, in Inhaminga, Sofala Province.

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University of Timbuktu

The University of Timbuktu is a collective term for the teaching associated with three mosques in the city of Timbuktu in what is now Mali: the masajid (mosques) of Sankore, Djinguereber, and Sidi Yahya.

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Utendi wa Tambuka

Utend̠i wa Tambuka or Utenzi wa Tambuka ("The Story of Tambuka"), also known as Kyuo kya Hereḳali (the book of Heraclius), is an epic poem in the Swahili language, dated 1728.

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Véronique Tadjo

Véronique Tadjo (born 1955) is a writer, poet, novelist, and artist from Côte d'Ivoire.

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Viriato da Cruz

Viriato Clemente da Cruz (25 March 1928 – 13 June 1973) was an Angolan poet and politician, who was born in Kikuvo, Porto Amboim, Portuguese Angola, and died in Beijing, People's Republic of China.

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Warsan Shire

Warsan Shire (born 1 August 1988) is a British writer, poet, editor and teacher, who was born to Somali parents in Kenya, east Africa.

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Ways of Dying

Ways of Dying is a 1995 novel by South African novelist and playwright Zakes Mda.

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We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories

We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Mozambique Stories (Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso) is a collection of short stories by Mozambican writer Luís Bernardo Honwana.

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Weep Not, Child

Weep Not, Child is Kenyan author Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o's first novel, published in 1964 under the name James Ngugi.

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Western literature

Western literature, also known as European literature, is the literature written in the context of Western culture in the languages of Europe, including the ones belonging to the Indo-European language family as well as several geographically or historically related languages such as Basque and Hungarian.

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Wilton G. S. Sankawulo

Wilton Gbakolo Sengbe Sankawulo, Sr. (July 26, 1937 – February 21, 2009) was a Liberian politician and author.

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Wizard of the Crow

Wizard of the Crow (Gikuyu: Mũrogi wa Kagogo) is a 2006 novel written by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and translated from the original Kikuyu into English by the author, his first novel in more than 20 years.

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Wole Soyinka

Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka (Yoruba: Akinwándé Oluwo̩lé Babátúndé S̩óyinká,; born 13 July 1934), known as Wole Soyinka, is a Nigerian playwright, poet and essayist.

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Woman at Point Zero

Woman at Point Zero (امرأة عند نقطة الصفر, Emra'a enda noktat el sifr) is a novel by Nawal El Saadawi published in Arabic in 1975.

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Work song

A work song is a piece of music closely connected to a form of work, either sung while conducting a task (usually to coordinate timing) or a song linked to a task which might be a connected narrative, description, or protest song.

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World War I

World War I (often abbreviated as WWI or WW1), also known as the First World War, the Great War, or the War to End All Wars, was a global war originating in Europe that lasted from 28 July 1914 to 11 November 1918.

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Xala

Xala (Wolof for "temporary sexual impotence") is a 1975 Senegalese film directed by Ousmane Sembène.

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Yambo Ouologuem

Yambo Ouologuem (August 22, 1940 – October 14, 2017) was a Malian writer.

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Yasmina Khadra

Yasmina Khadra (ياسمينة خضراء, literally meaning "green jasmine") is the pen name of the Algerian author Mohammed Moulessehoul (محمد مولسهول, born January 10, 1955, in Kénadsa, Béchar Province, Algeria).

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Yoruba people

The Yoruba people (name spelled also: Ioruba or Joruba;, lit. 'Yoruba lineage'; also known as Àwon omo Yorùbá, lit. 'Children of Yoruba', or simply as the Yoruba) are an ethnic group of southwestern and north-central Nigeria, as well as southern and central Benin.

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Yvonne Vera

Yvonne Vera (September 19, 1964 – April 7, 2005) was an author from Zimbabwe.

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Zahrah the Windseeker

Zahrah the Windseeker is young adult fantasy novel by Nigerian American writer Nnedi Okorafor, published in September 2005.

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Zakes Mda

Zakes Mda, legally Zanemvula Kizito Gatyeni Mda (born 1948), is a South African novelist, poet and playwright.

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Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe, officially the Republic of Zimbabwe, is a landlocked country located in southern Africa, between the Zambezi and Limpopo Rivers, bordered by South Africa, Botswana, Zambia and Mozambique. The capital and largest city is Harare. A country of roughly million people, Zimbabwe has 16 official languages, with English, Shona, and Ndebele the most commonly used. Since the 11th century, present-day Zimbabwe has been the site of several organised states and kingdoms as well as a major route for migration and trade. The British South Africa Company of Cecil Rhodes first demarcated the present territory during the 1890s; it became the self-governing British colony of Southern Rhodesia in 1923. In 1965, the conservative white minority government unilaterally declared independence as Rhodesia. The state endured international isolation and a 15-year guerrilla war with black nationalist forces; this culminated in a peace agreement that established universal enfranchisement and de jure sovereignty as Zimbabwe in April 1980. Zimbabwe then joined the Commonwealth of Nations, from which it was suspended in 2002 for breaches of international law by its then government and from which it withdrew from in December 2003. It is a member of the United Nations, the Southern African Development Community (SADC), the African Union (AU), and the Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA). It was once known as the "Jewel of Africa" for its prosperity. Robert Mugabe became Prime Minister of Zimbabwe in 1980, when his ZANU-PF party won the elections following the end of white minority rule; he was the President of Zimbabwe from 1987 until his resignation in 2017. Under Mugabe's authoritarian regime, the state security apparatus dominated the country and was responsible for widespread human rights violations. Mugabe maintained the revolutionary socialist rhetoric of the Cold War era, blaming Zimbabwe's economic woes on conspiring Western capitalist countries. Contemporary African political leaders were reluctant to criticise Mugabe, who was burnished by his anti-imperialist credentials, though Archbishop Desmond Tutu called him "a cartoon figure of an archetypal African dictator". The country has been in economic decline since the 1990s, experiencing several crashes and hyperinflation along the way. On 15 November 2017, in the wake of over a year of protests against his government as well as Zimbabwe's rapidly declining economy, Mugabe was placed under house arrest by the country's national army in a coup d'état. On 19 November 2017, ZANU-PF sacked Robert Mugabe as party leader and appointed former Vice President Emmerson Mnangagwa in his place. On 21 November 2017, Mugabe tendered his resignation prior to impeachment proceedings being completed.

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1789 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1789.

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1911 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1911.

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1935 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1935.

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1948 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1948.

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1962 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1962.

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1986 in literature

This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1986.

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References

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