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Bodomo, Adams – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2016
What is the most prototypical form of African literature? Shouldn't we be using African languages to produce African literary texts, shouldn't we produce more Afriphone African literature compared to Europhone African literature or Afro-Europhone literature? This issue underlies the reality that the vast majority of African writers presumably…
Descriptors: African Culture, African Languages, Literature, Indo European Languages
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Ononiwu, Mark Chitulu; Queen, Njemanze – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2015
Major African writers have never stopped exploring the themes of corruption, radical struggles and political instability in their respective domains. One of these writers and his monumental classic, Chinua Achebe; "Anthills of the Savanna", discusses these themes expertly and with utmost dexterity. The major task of this paper is not to…
Descriptors: Crime, Political Issues, Authors, Novels
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Abeka, Philomena; Marfo, Charles; Bonku, Lucy – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
What strategies does a female writer develop to overcome her anxiety of correcting the moral decadence in her society? Inappropriate as the use of pornography and profanity must have always seemed, Amma Darko has managed to put some positive and meritorious spins on them and seriously use them. In this paper, we examine how in two books,…
Descriptors: Pornography, Language Usage, African Culture, Novels
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Brown, Angela – Advances in Language and Literary Studies, 2014
It has been created within the larger realm culture, in that "Black methodology differs from most colonial differences by members of a minority community who reside within a nation of cultural biases."
Descriptors: African American Literature, Poetry, Fiction, Authors