is an immense continent that covers MORE THAN ONE-FIFTH of all the earth's land surface. This is the SECOND LARGEST CONTINENT. It contains about one eight of the world's population.

means LAND OF THE AFRI (plural for Afer) to refer what is now TUNISIA.

from Phoenician afar, meaning DUST or from the AFRIDI TRIBE of Northern Africa.

meaning without cold

• It may also come from the LATIN ________ meaning SUNNY.

• Africa named after

• Foreign influences came in the ____ century. Different religions and languages flourished.

Year marked the independence of Africa.

refers to ORAL and WRITTEN literary pieces produced on the continent. This literature preserves the RICH CULTURE and TRADITIONS OF THEIR NATIONS. Also, their works REFLECT THEIR STRUGGLES. When European colonial powers conquered Africa, they faced the dilemma of drastic or gradual modernization.

means blackness- the literary movement during 1930-1950.

The texts for the study of ______ literature shed light of CONTROVERSIAL ISSUES such as RACIAL DISCRIMINATION, apartheid, political conflicts, civil war, FEMINISM and GENDER SENSITIVITY, and HUMAN RIGHTS.

who WON NOBEL PRIZE for Literature in 1986

• Repetition and parallel structure • Repeat and vary technique • Call and response format

This includes PRAISE, POEMS, LOVE POEMS, TALES, RITUALS, AND MORAL instructions in the form of PROVERBS AND FABLES. Mostly performed by griots or the AFRICAN STORYTELLERS

Do NOT TELL A STORY but instead, like SONGS create a VIVID, EXPRESSIVE testaments testament to a SPEAKER'S THOUGHTS OR EMOTIONAL STATE.

Much more than QUAINT OLD SAYINGS. It uses FEW WORDS but achieves GREAT DEPTH OF MEANING and they function as the ESSENCE OF PEOPLE'S VALUES and KNOWLEDGE.

A kind of AFRICAN MORAL TALE that is intended for listeners to DISCUSS AND DEBATE.

Comes from whose traditional homeland is the DENSE AND HILLY FOREST beyond the city of kumansi in Ghana which was COLONIZED BY BRITISH. The tale exemplifies COMMON OCCUPATIONS.

An ENORMOUSLY popular type. The best known AFRICAN TRICKSTER Figure is ANANSI the spider from the West African origin.

Includes CREATION STORIES and stories explaining the ORIGIN of DEATH

Partly HUMAN, partly SUPERHUMAN who embody the HIGHEST VALUES- carry with them a CULTURE'S HISTORY, VALUES and TRADITIONS.