African authors such as Souleymane Mbodj are now in a position to create tales for schoolchildren that can be consulted at school. As we showed in a previous article, there are a large number of ...

Although written history has existed for centuries in West Africa, elsewhere on the continent knowledge and morality have mostly been transmitted through performance art, including the spoken word.

Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, who has died aged 87, was a titan of modern African literature - a storyteller who refused to be bound by jail, exile and illness. His work spanned roughly six decades ...

Chinua Achebe: His novel Things Fall Apart, the most famous book in African literature, does not yet exist in his language Photo: Courtesy “Repeat after me. The red lorry went round the red bend ...

Janice D. Hamlet, Word! The African American Oral Tradition and its Rhetorical Impact on American Popular Culture, Black History Bulletin, Vol. 74, No. 1, Theme: "The Influence of African Americans on ...

Ngũgĩ will be remembered not only as a Nobel-worthy writer, but also as a fierce proponent of literature written in native African languages. His life began in 1938, when Kenya was under British ...

Although written history has existed for centuries in West Africa, elsewhere on the continent knowledge and morality have mostly been transmitted through performance art, including the spoken word.