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African Languages and African Literature [PDF]
UJAH: Unizik Journal of Arts and Humanities, 2011 In the 1960s, much diatribe was exchanged by African literary artists within their caucus, and outside with different scholars interested in African literature. Wali demonstrates this disagreement. He comments, “… until these writers and their western midwives accept the fact that true African literature must be written in African ...
Davidson U Mbagwu, Cecilia A. Eme
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African Literatures in the Portuguese Language: Singularities [PDF]
The Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry, 2023 AbstractThis article reflects on some textual and institutional elements that distinguish literary life in Portuguese-speaking African countries. These elements concern, firstly, the peculiarities of the Portuguese empire. Combining precarity, epistemological backwardness, and violence in equal proportion, it inspired an artistic response that was ...
Nazir Ahmed Can
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A SURVEY OF CHRISTIAN LITERATURE IN AFRICAN LANGUAGES [PDF]
International Review of Mission, 1921 n ...
Charles E. Wilson
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Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature
CLCWeb: Comparative Literature and Culture, 2000 In his article, "Language and Culture in African Postcolonial Literature," Kwaku AsanteDarko offers both conceptual basis and empirical evidence in support of the fact that critical issues concerning protest, authenticity, and hybridity in African post-colonial literature have often been heavily laden with nationalist and leftist ideological ...
Kwaku Asante-Darko
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A Cultural Approach to African Languages and Literature [PDF]
Ufahamu: A Journal of African Studies, 1977 No ...
Kolawole Ogungbesan
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English in Africa: A Genocide for the Development of African Languages and Literatures [PDF]
JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY AND SOCIAL ANTHROPOLOGY, 2016 The aim of this paper is to discuss the idea that the more English rises in Africa, the more African languages and cultures die.
Johannes Seema
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Journal of Contemporary Issues in Education, 2022 Education for Sustainable Development (EfSD) gained global momentum in recent years. However, little is understood about the connection of EfSD and language, which was described as being among the most underestimated and under-researched parameters of ...
Nico Ulmer, Kerstin Wydra
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Revisting the language debate in African literatures
África, 2011 As language is still one of the main concerns of African nations, this paper aims to revisit the debate of the Kenyan Ngugi and the Nigerian Chinua Achebe regarding the use of Europeans languages in African Literatures. Thus, it also comes to terms with the political role of language and literature as a tool of liberation as well as the political role ...
Meyre I.S. Silva
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Literature and language: identity in African literature through new Englishes
AFRREV LALIGENS: An International Journal of Language, Literature and Gender Studies, 2016 There are strident voices against the continued use of English as an inter-group language in Nigeria and other African nations where the language serves as a second or foreign language, on the ground that the language is an alien language. The criticisms are more caustic in literary creations.
Donatus C Nwabunze
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Literator, 2022 Sorrow is perhaps the usual response to the disappearance of things into ‘nowhere’. The use of blank space in the poetry of E. E. Cummings and William Carlos Williams indicates an alternative response: to accept and even celebrate this.
Etienne J. Terblanche
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