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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.
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.
As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African Literature [3] in Understanding Contemporary Africa, whereas European views of literature stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness is inclusive and "literature" can also simply mean an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone. Traditionally, Africans do not radically ...
At the conference, several nationalist writers refused to acknowledge any literature written in non-African languages as being African literature. Ngũgĩ noted the irony of the conference's title, in that it excluded a great part of the population that did not write in English, while trying to define African literature but accepting that it must be in English. [10]
Africa Confidential; Africa Development; Africa Education Review; Africa Insight; Africa Media Review; Africa Renewal; Africa Research Bulletin; Africa Review of Books; Africa, Rivista semestrale di studi e ricerche, successor of Africa: Rivista trimestrale di studi e documentazione; Africa Spectrum; Africa Today; Africa Update; Africa Week ...
Midas Chanawe outlined in his historical survey of the development of Afrocentricity how experiences of the trans-Atlantic slave trade, Middle Passage, and legal prohibition of literacy, shared by enslaved African-Americans, followed by the experience of dual cultures (e.g., Africanisms, Americanisms), resulted in some African-Americans re-exploring their African cultural heritage rather than ...
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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 ...