Pre Colonial Africa In Colonial African Narratives
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Author | : Donald R. Wehrs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 206 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1317076303 |
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In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938), Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). Wehrs highlights the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, and is attentive to the gendered implications of texts and authorial choices. By positioning Things Fall Apart as the culmination of a tradition, rather than as its inaugural work, he also reconfigures how we think of African fiction. His book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives and will inspire fresh methodological strategies for studying the continent from a multiplicity of perspectives.
Author | : Donald R. Wehrs |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 193 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : African literature |
ISBN | : 9781315602011 |
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Author | : Donald R. Wehrs |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2016-04-08 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 131707629X |
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In his study of the origins of political reflection in twentieth-century African fiction, Donald Wehrs examines a neglected but important body of African texts written in colonial (English and French) and indigenous (Hausa and Yoruba) languages. He explores pioneering narrative representations of pre-colonial African history and society in seven texts: Casely Hayford's Ethiopia Unbound (1911), Alhaji Sir Abubaker Tafawa Balewa's Shaihu Umar (1934), Paul Hazoumé's Doguicimi (1938), D.O. Fagunwa's Forest of a Thousand Daemons (1938), Amos Tutuola's The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) and My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), and Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958). Wehrs highlights the role of pre-colonial political economies and articulations of state power on colonial-era considerations of ethical and political issues, and is attentive to the gendered implications of texts and authorial choices. By positioning Things Fall Apart as the culmination of a tradition, rather than as its inaugural work, he also reconfigures how we think of African fiction. His book supplements recent work on the importance of indigenous contexts and discourses in situating colonial-era narratives and will inspire fresh methodological strategies for studying the continent from a multiplicity of perspectives.
Author | : Lokangaka Losambe |
Publisher | : New Africa Books |
Total Pages | : 170 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9781919876061 |
Download Pre-colonial and Post-colonial Drama and Theatre in Africa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In this collection of essays written from different critical perspectives, African playwrights demonstrate through their art that they are not only witnesses, but also consciences, of their societies.
Author | : Cheikh Anta Diop |
Publisher | : Chicago Review Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2012-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1613747454 |
Download Precolonial Black Africa Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This comparison of the political and social systems of Europe and black Africa from antiquity to the formation of modern states demonstrates the black contribution to the development of Western civilization.
Author | : Martin Gray |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 76 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Africa |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Paul Hazoumé |
Publisher | : Three Continents |
Total Pages | : 456 |
Release | : 1990 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Doguicimi Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Although a staunch supporter of French colonialism, Paul Hazoume's narrative captures the customs and traditions of Dahomey. This novel, set in the first half of the 19th century, depicts a pattern of war, slave trade and human sacrifice - practices that earned Dahomey a reputation for brutality.
Author | : Basil Davidson |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2014-10-29 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1317882652 |
Download West Africa before the Colonial Era Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This is a survey of pre-colonial West Africa, written by the internationally respected author and journalist, Basil Davidson. He takes as his starting point his successful textA History of West Africa 1000-1800, but he has reworked his new text specially for a wider international readership. In the process he offers a fascinating introduction to the rich societies and cultures of Africa before the coming of the Europeans.
Author | : Sjoerd Rijpma |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 640 |
Release | : 2015-06-24 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9004293736 |
Download David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This study about David Livingstone is different from all other publications about him. Here, Livingstone is not the main topic of interest; the focus of the author is on nutrition and health in pre-colonial Africa and Livingstone is his key informant. David Livingstone and the Myth of African Poverty and Disease is an unusual book. After a close examination of Livingstone’s writings and comparative reading of contemporary authors, Sjoerd Rijpma has been able to draw cautious conclusions about the relatively favourable conditions of health and nutrition in southern and central Africa during the pre-colonial period. His findings shed new light on the medical history of Sub-Saharan Africa. The surprise awaiting travellers in and also before 19th century Africa was that the inhabitants of the interior, even the ‘slaves’, were healthier and better fed than many of their contemporaries in Europe’s Industrial Revolution. “An impressive piece of scholarship, truly forensic in its close reading and re-reading of Livingstone’s published works and those of other travellers during the same era, clearly a labour of love which has taken years to complete” (Joanna Lewis).
Author | : Ellah Wakatama Allfrey |
Publisher | : Dundurn |
Total Pages | : 254 |
Release | : 2015-05-16 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 1459730577 |
Download Let's Tell This Story Properly Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Honouring strong new voices from around the world, the 2014 Commonwealth Short Story Prize is a global award, open to unpublished as well as published writers, with a truly international judging panel. This global anthology presents the winner of the 2014 Short Story Prize, Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi’s “Let’s Tell This Story Properly,” alongside some of the most promising and original stories entered for the prize during the past three years by emerging writers across the literary landscape of the world. Gathered from over ten thousand entries, the selected stories are provocative, rich in flair and ambition, and push the boundaries of fiction into fresh territory.