AFS 113 Themes in African Studies ... Spain, Morocco, Algeria, Central and West Africa, the United States, Iran, France, Indonesia and Thailand. Restrictions: FRN 380 may be repeated once with a ...

One of the most pervasive themes in American literature is “the search for identity.” Our earliest authors celebrated literary characters who separated from family, ancestry, and the past to ...

The Key West Literary Seminar opens Jan. 12 in Key West with the theme 'Singing America: A Celebration of Black Literature.' America's best writers appear at the seminar, now in its 40th year, and ...

In 1967, he co-authored the “History of West Africa” to consider themes such as the encroachment of European industrial capitalism on the Western Sudan, and contributed to a 1971 work for ...

The Yoruba are among the most storied groups in Africa. Their ancestral homeland cuts across present-day southwest Nigeria, Benin Republic and Togo in West Africa. They number between 35 and 40 ...

On this episode of Talk of Iowa, host Charity Nebbe and Iowa City West high school teacher Amari Nasafi provide a reading list full of African American Literature.

READ UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND The Profound Wisdom of Black Life and Literature By Farah Jasmine Griffin. The most African American of storytelling traditions arose from the pulpit of the church. From ...

Maryse Condé, a writer from the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe whose explorations of race, gender and colonialism across the Francophone world made her a perennial favorite for the Nobel ...