21. African Studies: African Literature Africa's 100 Best Books (Zimbabwe International Book Fair, Harare; via Columbia University) General announcement and contact information. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/indiv/africa/cuvl/aflit.html

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22. African Literature Info Facebook Welcome to the Facebook Community Page about African literature, a collection of shared knowledge concerning African literature. http://www.facebook.com/pages/African-literature/107713392585558?v=info

23. Voices Features biographical information of a number of African writers and a bibliography of African literature in English. http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/cm/africana/writers.htm

African Writers: Voices of Change These pages began in February 1996 as small project for a display in the lobby of Library West, UF's Humanities and Social Sciences library. Because the original file has become one of our more popular pages, we have expanded it significantly. I hope that this page sparks interest in African literature generally, and more specifically, in our sizable collection here at UF. Newly added in March and April of 1997 are short biographical pieces on Chinua Achebe, Ama Ata Aidoo, Ayi Kwei Armah, Buchi Emecheta, Bessie Head, Alex La Guma, Dambudzo Marechera, Ezekiel Mphahlele, Alan Paton, Okot P'Bitek, and Amos Tutuola. A substantial page for Francophone African poets in English translation is also now available, including brief biographical sketches as well as short excerpts from each author's work. We would be happy to review submissions from others in a similar vein. Thumbnail reviews of African novels would be especially welcomed, as would biographical sketches such as those found here already. We reserve for ourselves all editorial decisions for this site. Enjoy!

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25. The African Literature Association An independent non-profit professional society aiming to promote African writers and artists. http://www.h-net.org/~aflitweb/ala.html

about search site map editors ... help The African Literature Association The African Literature Association is an independent non-profit professional society open to scholars, teachers and writers from every country. It exists primarily to facilitate the attempts of a world-wide audience to appreciate the efforts of African writers and artists. The organization welcomes the participation of all who produce the object of our study and hopes for a constructive interaction between scholars and artists. The ALA as an organization affirms the primacy of the African peoples in shaping the future of African literature and actively supports the African peoples in their struggle for liberation. The ALA Bulletin (formerly the ALA Newsletter , volumes I-VII, 1974-1981), is published quarterly by the ALA for its members, and members receive substantial discounts when purshasing volumes of selected papers from the annual conferences of the ALA which take place in late March or April. Membership is for the calendar year. For further information about ALA membership please contact: Dr. Louuis Tremaine, ALA Treasurer

26. African Literature -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia African literature, the body of traditional oral and written literatures in AfroAsiatic and African languages together with works written by Africans in European languages. http://www.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/8275/African-literature

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27. Exploring Africa An excerpt from a novel by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o is included as an example of East African literature in the third activity. A short story from Sudan is http://exploringafrica.matrix.msu.edu/students/curriculum/m11/

Unit Three: Studying Africa through the Humanities Module Eleven: African Literatures Student's Edition Introduction to Module Eleven: African Literatures PURPOSE Module Eleven: African Literatures will introduce students to the beauty and diversity of African literatures. The lesson will allow students to read works of literature from Southern, West, East, North, and Central Africa. Students will also be exposed to the different genres of African literatures. Poems by Zimbabwean author Charles Mungoshi make up the first activity that focuses on Southern Africa. From the West African countries of Niger and Nigeria, students will be asked to read and listen to folk tales in the second activity. An excerpt from a novel by Kenyan author Ngugi wa Thiong'o is included as an example of East African literature in the third activity. A short story from Sudan is discussed in Activity Four, and in Activity Five students will read excerpts from an autobiography by Moroccan author Fatima Mernissi. Finally, students will read part of a play from Tanzania. In the teacher's edition of the module, you will find information about the history of African literature, the authors, and additional sources for reference and classroom purposes. Each activity features discussion questions that the teacher can use or ignore. Answers to the questions can be written down and filed in the Exploring Africa Journal, or used as the basis for discussions about the literature.

28. H-AfrLitCine Discussion Network H-Net discussion list dealing with African Literature and Cinema. Includes book reviews and searchable archives. http://www.h-net.org/~aflitweb/

about search site map editors ... H-AfrPol Enter keyword(s) Search all H-Net Logs Reviewer: J. Roger Kurtz Title: Oral Literature of the Asians in East Africa Author: Mubina Hassanali Kirmani, Sanaullah Kirmani Reviewer: J. Roger Kurtz Title: Saba: Under the Hyena's Foot Author: Jane Kurtz Reviewer: Stephen Belcher Title: The African Epic Controversy: Historical, Philosophical, and Aesthetic Perspectives on Epic Poetry and Performances Author: Mugyabuso M. Mulokozi FW: emmanuel obiechina FW: USA Africa Dialogue Series - Professor Emmanuel Obiechina: Is it true? FW: [CAAS-ACEA] Call for papers - Appel ŕ communications 2011 FW: Lusophone Film Festival, 9-13 November, QMUL, London ... PRE-DOCTORAL / POST-DOCTORAL FELLOWSHIP IN AFRICANA STUDIES Social Sciences Online Send comments and questions to H-AfrLitCine Editors H-AfrLitCine RSS

29. African Literature Association ALA Latest News Updates. The African Literature Association invites nominations for three awards to be announced at the 37th annual conference of the ALA the FonlonNichols http://www.africanlit.org/

The African Literature Association invites nominations for three awards to be announced at the 37th annual conference of the ALA: the Fonlon-Nichols Award for Excellence in Creative Writing and Contributions to the Struggle for Human Rights and Freedom of Expression , the ALA Distinguished Membership Award , and the ALA Graduate Student Award Complete details on the individual awards, nomination process, and deadlines is available here The website for the 2011 ALA Conference to be held at Ohio University is now live . The conference will be held April 13-17, 2011 in Athens, Ohio, and the deadline for submission of proposals is December 1, 2010. Visit the site for complete details on deadlines, programming, transportation, and all the rest. The editor of JALA invites submission of essays, reviews, and review-essays that reflect the range of primary materials, critical methodologies, and the many contending and complementary movements in African and African diaspora literatures and cultures. Deadlines for submissions are February 1 for the spring/summer issue and June 1 for the fall/winter issue. For more information, please read the JALA Submission Guidelines (pdf).

30. African Literature: A Topc As Vast As A Continent A F R I C A N L I T E R A T U R E A Topic as Vast as a Continent. by Lucianne Englert. Just as the single continent of Africa contains more than fifty countries and inspires http://www.indiana.edu/~rcapub/v21n3/p16.html

Indiana University January 1999 Volume XXI Number 3 A F R I C A N L I T E R A T U R E A Topic as Vast as a Continent by Lucianne Englert Just as the single continent of Africa contains more than fifty countries and inspires unique interpretations for every visitor or student, so does a conversation about African literature extend into a myriad of subtopics. Conversing with Eileen Julien, professor of comparative literature and of French at Indiana University Bloomington, adds layer upon layer of understanding on the topic- or topics, if you prefer. Eileen Julien , professor of comparative literature and French , Indiana University Bloomington, sits in front of a painting by her husband, Kalidou Sy. Julien recently received a Guggenhim fellowship to look at dynamism in African creativity. credit A Single "African Literature?" "In the West, we have a habit of speaking of 'African literature' as though it's all one thing," Julien says. "We focus on Eurolanguage literature, texts written in English, French, and sometimes Portuguese, but the literature of Africa is really quite broad. African literature includes oral traditions (which are still very much alive), national language literatures (such as material written in Swahili in Kenya or Tanzania or Yoruba in Nigeria), Eurolanguage literatures, and especially because of literacy problems in Africa, many film and theater presentations." The Empire Writes Back Many Africans began writing in European languages during the 1950s in response to colonialist anthropology, history, fiction, and travel narratives. "Intellectuals throughout Africa thought their cultures were being misrepresented in these European texts, so they wrote their own perspectives," she explains. Westerners then began using those texts because they were widely available and written in the languages of Europe.

31. J.M. Coetzee - Contemporary Perspectives On J.M. Coetzee And Post-Apartheid Sout An international conference. Includes information about speakers, program information, and tickets. http://www.timwright.co.uk/coetzee/

Contemporary Perspectives on J.M. Coetzee and Post-Apartheid South African Literature: An International Conference Home Programme Plenaries Tickets ... Contact Now extended to two days due to wide international response We are delighted to announce our plenary speakers: South Africa and its writers, past and present, have long established themselves in a compelling and forceful role in the wider scheme of world literature. However, after years of censorship and silencing during apartheid, the collective South African voice is now heard more widely and clearly: inescapable, inevitable and unavoidable. Previous authors who were silenced under apartheid can now be heard, novels banned for decades have been reissued and new fiction is being published to international acclaim. J.M. Coetzee has been one of South Africa's significant authors, both during and after apartheid. The first writer to have won the prestigious Booker Prize twice, he has recently been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. Coetzee's socially aware fiction has arguably been the voice most often heard from South African literature during apartheid in the West, both as a novelist and as an academic figure. Ten years after the end of apartheid, it is essential to enter into a dialogue with these voices that we are only just being permitted to hear unchecked.

32. African Literature - Papers And Essays On... African literature essays papers on wokrs like Achebe's Things Fall Apart, stories by Gordimer and more - African literature essays http://www.africanlit.com/

Essays on African Literature This site features dozens of essays critically analyzing works of African literature. When Chinuah Achebe wrote "Things Fall Apart" in 1958, few could have guessed that it would have such a tremendous impact and draw so much attention to its sociopolitical themes that the novel would be studied by students as far away as the United States in an era as distant as the 21st century. Yet the works of Achebe and many other African authors of the last one hundred or so years have not only made their way into mainstream literature...but into the forums of higher education as well. AfricanLit.Com serves not only as a tribute to these great authors from the "dark continent" but also as a database for essays, reports, and papers critically analyzing some of the genre's most commonly read works! If you're a student struggling to understand a piece of African literature assigned to you, use the " paper list " button on your left to browse a database of essays designed to help you understand... or write a term paper about the story you're reading! And if you can't find anything on the particular piece of African fiction YOU'RE writing about, just use the "

33. Dis Nigeria Sef Ken Saro-Wiwa As The Poet Who Wasn T Academic article places Saro-Wiwa s poetry, as well as his television scripts, within contemporary African literature. http://e3.uci.edu/faculty/losh/pubs/Saro-Wiwa.doc

34. African Literature — Infoplease.com Encyclopedia African literature. African literature, literary works of the African continent. African literature consists of a body of work in different languages and various http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/ent/A0802673.html

35. African Literature Not all lizards who lie on their stomachs have a stomach ache. The turtle, like the elder, leans his head down during deep thinking. http://www.indigenouspeople.net/AfricanLit/

"I dedicate this page to all my African friends "Not all lizards who lie on their stomachs have a stomach ache. The turtle, like the elder, leans his head down during deep thinking." African Literature African literature refers to the literature of and for the African peoples. As George Joseph notes on the first page of his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary Africa , while the European perception of literature generally refers to written letters, the African concept includes oral literature. As George Joseph continues, while European views of literature often stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness is inclusive: "Literature" can also imply an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone. Without denying the important role of aesthetics in Africa, we should keep in mind that, traditionally, Africans do not radically separate art from teaching. Rather than write or sing for beauty in itself, African writers, taking their cue from oral literature , use beauty to help communicate important truths and information to society. Indeed, an object is considered beautiful because of the truths it reveals and the communities it helps to build.

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37. African Literature - Information, Facts, And Links African Literature Information, Facts, and Links at eNotes There are as many types of African literature as there are African nations—from Northern Africa to the Cape http://www.enotes.com/topics/african-literature

38. African Literature Despite the ignorance of most so called literati to the domain of African literature, African literature in fact is one of the main currents of world literature, stretching http://www.unc.edu/~hhalpin/ThingsFallApart/literature.html

Literary Background African Literature Despite the ignorance of most so called "literati" to the domain of African literature, African literature in fact is one of the main currents of world literature, stretching continuously and directly back to ancient history. Achebe did not "invent" African Literature, because he himself was inundated with it as an African. He simply made more people aware of it. The Beginnings of African Literature The first African literature is circa 2300-2100, when ancient Egyptians begin using burial texts to accompany their dead. These include the first written accounts of creation - the Memphite Declaration of Deitie s. Not only that, but 'papyrus', from which we originate our word for paper, was invented by the Egyptians, and writing flourished. In contrast, Sub-Saharan Africa feature a vibrant and varied oral culture. To take into account written literary culture without considering literary culture is definitely a mistake, because they two interplay heavily with each other. African oral arts are "art's for life's sake" (Mukere) not European "art's for art's sake", and so may be considered foreign and strange by European readers. However, they provide useful knowledge, historical knowledge, ethical wisdom, and creative stimuli in a direct fashion. Oral culture takes many forms: proverbs and riddles, epic narratives, oration and personal testimony, praise poetry and songs, chants and rituals, stories, legends and folk tales. This is present in the many proverbs told in

39. African Literature Fiction, poetry and nonfiction from writers all over the world, throughout history. A literary journey through Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. http://www.suite101.com/african-literature

40. African Literature - Research And Read Books, Journals, Articles African Literature Scholarly books, journals and articles African Literature at Questia, world's largest online library and research service. Subscribe now and do better http://www.questia.com/library/literature/literature-of-specific-countries/afric

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