African literature

2. CHARACTERISTICS
OF AFRICAN
LITERATURE

3. Characteristics of African Literature
•SLAVE NARRATIVE
•PROTEST AGAINST COLONIZATION
•CALLS FOR INDEPENDENCE
•AFRIAN PRIDE
•HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
•DISSENT

4. SLAVE NARRATIVE
• The first form of African narrative that
drew any attention from Western
civilization.
• A literary genre involving autobiographical
accounts of enslaved Afrians, particularly
in the Americas, and the centers on their
rite of passage from slavery in the South
to freedom in the North.

5. PROTEST AGAINST
COLONIZATION
• West Africans authors used their writings
to speak out against enslavement and for
racial equality
• They argued against colonial stereotypes
of Afrians as “primitive”, “savage” and
laking distinctive cultural and political
systems of their own.

6. CALLS FOR INDEPENDENCE
• Independence campaigns were led by
nationalist leaders with charismatic
personalities and great intellectual ability.
• In touch with international Pan-Africanist,
they were able to frame ideas of equality
and nationalism.

7. AFRICAN PRIDE
• Creating African identities that promote
the idea of a cultural movement of African
literary renaissance.
• Chinua Achebe is one of the Africans Pride

8. HOPE FOR THE FUTURE
• It focuses on the literature of hope and
despair over the betrayal of the goals of
liberation struggles in Africa.

9. DISSENT
• Writer expresses a different opinion
through writing poems, stories in which
characters have profound messages to
political issues.