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    The document provides an overview of notable authors and works from across Africa, listing the country, literature type, authors, titles of works, and languages used for novels, plays, poems, and other works from Nigeria, Ghana, Somalia, Kenya, Uganda, Malawi, Zimbabwe, South Africa, Senegal, Guinea, Mali, Cote d'Ivoire, Cameroon, Congo, Cape Verde, Mozambique, and Angola. Some of the notable authors mentioned include Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Flora Nwapa, Ben Okri, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, and J.

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    African Literature

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    Kenneth Royce B.

    Ibuan
    BSE English 2-1

    Africa: Cementing History Through Timeless Tales

    PLACE LITERATURE TYPE NOTABLE AUTHORS CONTRIBUTION VERNACULAR USED


    Nigeria Novel Things Fall Apart English
    Chinua Achebe (1958)
    Memoir Arrow of God (1964) English
    Play No Longer at Ease English
    (1960)

    Novel The Interpreters (165) English


    Novel Wole Soyinka The Man Died (1972) English
    Play The Lion and the Jewel English
    (1963)

    Novel Flora Nwapa Efuru (1966) English

    Novel Buchi Emecheta The Joys of English


    Motherhood (1979)

    Novel Ben Okri The Famished Road English


    (1991)
    Ghana Novel Ayi Kwei Armah The Beautyful Ones Are English
    Not Yet Born (1968)

    Play Ama Ata Aidoo Dilemma of a Ghost English


    (1971)
    Poem Kofi Awoonor Night of My Blood English
    (1985)

    Somalia Novel Nuruddin Farah From a Crooked Rib English


    (1970)

    Kenya Lyrical Novel Ngugi wa Thiong'o Weep Not, Child (1964) English
    Uganda Satirical Poem Okot p' Bitek Song of Lawino (1966) English
    Malawi Poem Jack Mapanje Of Chameleons and English
    Gods (1981)
    Zimbabwe Short Story Chenjerai Hove Bones (1988) English
    Novel Shimmer Chindoya Harvest of Thorns English
    (1989)
    Novel Tsitsi Dangarembga Nervous Conditions English
    (1988)
    South Africa Novel Alan Paton Cry, the Beloved English
    Country (1948)
    Poem Collection Breyten Breytenbach In Africa Even the Flies English
    Are Happy (1978)
    Novel J. M. Coetzee Waiting for the English
    Barbarians (1980)

    Senegal Poem David Diop Hammer Blows (1993) French


    Novel Cheikh Hamidou Kane L'Aventure ambigue French
    (1961)
    Novel Aminata Sow Fall La Greve Des Battu French
    (1979)
    Guinea Novel Camara Laye L'Enfant Noir (1953) French
    Novel Alioum Fantoure (Le Cercle des French
    Tropiques (1972)
    Novel William Sassine Wirriyami (1976) French
    Mali Novel Hampate Ba L'Etrange Destin de French
    Wangrin (1973)
    Novel Yambo Ouologuem Le devoir de violence French
    (1968)
    Cote d'Ivoire Play Bernard Dadie Beatrice du Congo French
    (1970)
    Novel Ahmadou Kourouma Les Soleils des French
    independances (1968)

    Cameroon Novel Ferdinand Oyono Une vie de boy (1956) French


    Short Story Rene Philombe Lettres de ma cambuse French
    (1965)
    Congo Poem Jean-Baptiste Tati- Poemes de la mer French
    Loutard (1968)
    Poem Tchicaya U Tam'si Le Mauvais Sang French
    (1955)
    Cape Verde Novel Baltasar Lopes Chinquinho (1947) Portuguese
    Novel Dina Salústio A Louca de Serrano Portuguese
    (1998)
    Mozambique Short Stories Collection Luis Bernardo Nos matamos o ciio Portuguese
    Honwana tinhoso (1964)
    Angola Novella Jose Luandino Vieira A Vida Verdadeira de Portuguse
    Domingos Xavier
    (1974)

    Reference:

    Julien, Eileen. "African Literature." In: Africa, 3rd edition, edited by Phyllis M. Martin & Patrick O'Meara, pp. 295-312.

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