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A common theme during the colonial period is the slave narrative, often written in English or French for western audiences. Among the first pieces of African literature to receive significant worldwide critical acclaim was Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, published in 1958.
Abiola Irele was born in Igbo-Ora, Nigeria, and moved to Enugu very early in his life. His father is from Uokha while his mother is from Ora both in Owan area of Edo State. . The first language he learned was Igbo, which he learned from the servants who worked for his father and took care of him growing up.
Part of the problem is that English literature has been seen within the greater context of English writing in the world, and has, because of English's global position as ', not been seen as autonomous or indigenous to South Africa – in Olivier’s words: "English literature in South Africa continues to be a sort of extension of British or ...
Decolonising the Mind: the Politics of Language in African Literature (Heinemann Educational, 1986), by the Kenyan novelist and post-colonial theorist Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, is a collection of essays about language and its constructive role in national culture, history, and identity.
Africa; Africa & Asia: Göteborg Working Papers on Asian and African Languages and Literatures; Africa Bibliography; Africa Confidential; Africa Development; Africa Education Review; Africa Insight; Africa Media Review; Africa Renewal; Africa Research Bulletin; Africa Review of Books
The Thomas Pringle Collection for English in Africa was founded in 1972. In 1974 this became the National Documentation Centre for English and in 1980 was declared a cultural institution and renamed the National English Literary Museum and Documentation Centre. In 2017 the number of literary artefacts in the museum's collection stood at over ...
Literature of Sierra Leone is the collection of written and spoken work, mostly fictional, from Sierra Leone. The coastal west-African country suffered a civil war from 1991 until 2002. Before the civil war, Sierra Leone had many writers contributing to its literature and since the end of the war the country has been in the process of ...
The first conference entitled “The Woman as a Writer in Africa” was held at the University of Calabar auditorium in May 1981 and Ghanaian writer Ama Ata Aidoo was keynote speaker. The themes of 1982, namely "Literature in African Languages" and "Writing Books for Children", featured Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o and Bessie Head as keynote speakers.