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African literature and Western literature

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Difference between African literature and Western literature

African literature vs. Western literature

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

Similarities between African literature and Western literature

African literature and Western literature have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): English language, French language, Literature, Oceanian literature, Portuguese language.

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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French language

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

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Literature

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

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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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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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African literature and Western literature Comparison

African literature has 310 relations, while Western literature has 56. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 1.37% = 5 / (310 + 56).

References

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