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Beuving, J. Joost. "ETHNOGRAPHIES OF MARGINALITY." Africa 86, no. 1 (January 15, 2016): 162–74. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0001972015000960.

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Africanist discourse today displays a strong, widespread and growing sense of optimism about Africa's economic future. After decades of decline and stagnation in which Africa found itself reduced to the margins of the global economic stage, upbeat Afro-optimism seems fully justified. One only needs to consider African economies' solid growth rates, the emergence of new export markets earning unprecedented quantities of foreign exchange, and the rise of novel groups such as innovative African entrepreneurs (Taylor 2012) and urban-based middle classes (Simone 2004). Ironically, Africa's bright future stands in strong contrast to the stagnancy of European and American economic powers, once seen as superior to their African relatives. Deeply held feelings of Afro-pessimism, affecting intellectuals as well as ordinary Africans, are thus giving way to almost millennial expectations of Africa's economic future: the continent's imminent catching up with a degree of private and public prosperity so commonly registered elsewhere on the globe. Some go as far as to declare the rise of a proper African renaissance wherein Africa can (finally!) claim its rightful position on the global stage.

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Edward Montle, Malesela. "Decolonising African Cultural Identity in Es’kia Mphahlele’s Chirundu : A literary Appreciation." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 33–45. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2020/v1n3a2.

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Though Africans are striving to re-define and re-construct themselves through re-asserting their eroded African cultural identity, this appears to be a mammoth, almost insurmountable task. It remains a nuanced terrain because, on the one hand, there is material benefit from being bedfellows with the neocolonial forces while on the other hand, there is hardship which is meted out against the proponents of African decolonisation, particularly the quintessential ones. Sanctions are one of the austerity measures which the neo-colonial powers use to suppress those Africans who genuinely want to advance African renaissance. This is the cause of identity crisis among many Africans, and unsavoury marriages of convenience between the West and African nations today. This paper, therefore, seeks to examine the dilemma faced by the essentialist adherents of African culture today and their supposed role in the advancement of Africa as a continent. It uses Chirundu's character in Es'kia Mphahlele's novel of the same name, as a case in point. The argument, in this paper, is grounded on Afrocentricity as a strand of Post-Colonial Theory (with or without a hyphen) with an implied suggestion that the solution to Africa's postcolonial challenges lies in forging cultural hybridity with the nations of the world.

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Feng, Yuanqing, Michael A. McQuillan, and Sarah A. Tishkoff. "Evolutionary genetics of skin pigmentation in African populations." Human Molecular Genetics 30, R1 (January 12, 2021): R88—R97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/hmg/ddab007.

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Abstract Skin color is a highly heritable human trait, and global variation in skin pigmentation has been shaped by natural selection, migration and admixture. Ethnically diverse African populations harbor extremely high levels of genetic and phenotypic diversity, and skin pigmentation varies widely across Africa. Recent genome-wide genetic studies of skin pigmentation in African populations have advanced our understanding of pigmentation biology and human evolutionary history. For example, novel roles in skin pigmentation for loci near MFSD12 and DDB1 have recently been identified in African populations. However, due to an underrepresentation of Africans in human genetic studies, there is still much to learn about the evolutionary genetics of skin pigmentation. Here, we summarize recent progress in skin pigmentation genetics in Africans and discuss the importance of including more ethnically diverse African populations in future genetic studies. In addition, we discuss methods for functional validation of adaptive variants related to skin pigmentation.

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Casimir, Komenan. "Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart: A Seminal Novel in African Literature." Studies in Linguistics and Literature 4, no. 3 (June 27, 2020): p55. http://dx.doi.org/10.22158/sll.v4n3p55.

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Achebe’s Things Fall Apart is an influential novel in African literature for three reasons. First, it is a novel meant to promote African culture; second, it is a narrative about where things went wrong with Africans; and third, it is a prose text which contributed to Achebe’s worldwide recognition. It contains Achebe’s rejection of the degrading representation of Africans by European writers, and fosters Africa’s traditional values and humanism. The excesses of Igbo customs led the protagonist to flagrant misuse of power. The novel’s scriptural innovations bring fame to Achebe who is considered as the “Asiwaju” (Leader) of African literature, the “founding father of African fiction”, or again the “Eagle on Iroko”.

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Julien, Eileen. "The extroverted African novel, revisited: African novels at home, in the world." Journal of African Cultural Studies 30, no. 3 (May 24, 2018): 371–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/13696815.2018.1468241.

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Julien, Eileen, and Simon Gikandi. "Reading the African Novel." International Journal of African Historical Studies 22, no. 2 (1989): 360. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/220071.

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King, Adele, and Simon Gikandi. "Reading the African Novel." World Literature Today 62, no. 4 (1988): 714. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40144744.

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INNES, C. L. "Reading the African Novel." African Affairs 88, no. 350 (January 1989): 123–24. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordjournals.afraf.a098126.

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OGEDE, ODE. "TEACHING THE AFRICAN NOVEL." Matatu 41, no. 1 (2013): 518–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789401209151_031.

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Pasi, Juliet Sylvia, and Josephine Olufunmilayo Alexander. "Problematizing Minor Transnational Identities And Patterns Of Othering In Meg Vandermerwe’s Zebra Crossing." Forum for Modern Language Studies 56, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 4–20. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz061.

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Abstract In her debut novel, Zebra Crossing, Meg Vandermerwe privileges the voice of Chipo Nyamubaya, an albino girl from Zimbabwe, to capture the gripping and tragic experiences of African immigrants in South Africa. This article problematizes the notion of minor transnational identities by interrogating the relationships between South Africans and those they refer to as outsiders, and the relationship between the African immigrants themselves vis-à-vis culturally held beliefs about albinos and LGBTs. In the process, we demonstrate the patterns of the idea of Otherness brought about by racism, xenophobia, homophobic prejudice and insensitive discrimination. The article reveals how Othering debunks the ideology of African connectedness by bringing out the apparent contradictions in the values of Ubuntu.

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Hadiyanto. "REPRESENTASI KOLONISASI TERHADAP MASYARAKAT KULIT HITAM AFRIKA DALAM NOVEL THINGS FALL APART KARYA CHINUA ACHEBE." HUMANIKA 19, no. 1 (October 18, 2016): 20. http://dx.doi.org/10.14710/humanika.19.1.20-34.

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Abstract This article discusses white-skinned race colonization and its impacts on African black-skinned race tribal society and culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as the implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of white-skinned race colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strategies. Those strategies are proven effectively in strengthening white-skinned race’s colonial hegemony in Africa. The white-skinned race colonialists’ imperialism results in horizontal conflict and cultural-social disintegration in African native society; between the pro-colonial and the anti-colonial. Anti-colonial resistence is shown by most African native society to fight against colonial government arrogance and to resist white-skinned race imperialism in Africa. Keywords: African black-skinned race traditional culture, white-skinned race colonization, horizontal conflict, social-cultural disintegration

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Hadiyanto. "Kolonialisasi Inggris dan Pengaruhnya Terhadap Masyarakat Tradisional Afrika dalam Novel Things Fall Apart Karya Chinua Achebe." Lensa: Kajian Kebahasaan, Kesusastraan, dan Budaya 2, no. 2 (August 11, 2012): 153–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.26714/lensa.2.2.2012.153-185.

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This paper discusses England colonization and its impacts on African tribal culture in African Anglophone novel Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. The approach used in this research is post-colonial approach by using post-colonial theory to analyze phenomena as well as implication of the colonizer and the colonized relationship. The result of this research indicates that the coming of England colonialists in African Ibo tribe community with their colonization and cultural imperialism is implemented with varied strategies. Those strategies are proven effectively in strengthening England's colonial hegemony in Africa. The England colonialists' imperialism results in horizontal conflict and cultural-social disintegration in African native society; between the pro-colonial and the anti-colonial. Anti-colonial resistence is shown by most African native society to fight against colonial government arrogance and to resist England imperialism in Africa.

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Yoder, Lauren W., and Mildred Mortimer. "Journeys through the African Novel." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 28, no. 1 (1994): 169. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485858.

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Ejike, Cyril Emeka. "COVID-19 and Other Prevalent Diseases in Africa: A Pragmatic Approach." Conatus 6, no. 1 (September 19, 2021): 33. http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/cjp.24650.

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The aim of this paper is to propose that the development and legitimization of African knowledge and validation systems on a pragmatic basis, is an efficient and effective means of responding to a myriad of health problems plaguing Africans, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic. Whenever there is a novel disease outbreak, the norm is to wait for the development of scientifically proven vaccines for its treatment. However, the scientific validation of drugs is a rigorous and lengthy process, thereby inappropriate for dealing with health emergencies like the COVID-19 outbreak. The alarming rapidity with which the novel COVID-19 pandemic rages globally and decimates humanity has brought to the fore the need for Africa to look inwards in search of viable and efficient alternative approaches to the pandemic. In this paper, I examine pragmatism as a theoretical framework and relate it to proposed African epistemic and validation frameworks with a particular reference to homegrown orthodox and alternative/complementary medicines. I argue that the validation and approval of any knowledge claim based on pragmatism is a more expeditious mode of attending to COVID-19 and other prevalent diseases in Africa. The application of knowledge that brings practical success in dealing with health challenges in Africa without necessarily following rigid and lengthy scientific validation procedures will go a long way toward improving human conditions and well-being. I conclude that pragmatic considerations should ultimately inform local approval to homegrown African medicines for use in Africa.

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Nganang, Patrice. "Le roman des détritus." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 241–56. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001032.

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For the last ten years, new and very exciting writers have been emerging in the landscape of African literature. Their books are redefining the boundaries of the novel, opening it up to the tumult of the present and to the new potentialities of the future. This essay looks at one particular type of fiction that can lay claim to a more important status among the novels published by African writers in the course of the decade – the novel of detritus. This is a particular form of novel that opens itself to the marvels of the city, as opposed to the village, and at the same time addresses the rampant destruction which, in the form of numerous civil wars, has established itself as an indisputable paradigm of contemporary Africa.

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Quansah, Emmanuel, and Thomas K. Karikari. "Motor Neuron Diseases in Sub-Saharan Africa: The Need for More Population-Based Studies." BioMed Research International 2015 (2015): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/298409.

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Motor neuron diseases (MNDs) are devastating neurological diseases that are characterised by gradual degeneration and death of motor neurons. Major types of MNDs include amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and spinal muscular atrophy (SMA). These diseases are incurable, with limited disease-modifying treatment options. In order to improve MND-based biomedical research, drug development, and clinical care, population-based studies will be important. These studies, especially among less-studied populations, might identify novel factors controlling disease susceptibility and resistance. To evaluate progress in MND research in Africa, we examined the published literature on MNDs in Sub-Saharan Africa to identify disease prevalence, genetic factors, and other risk factors. Our findings indicate that the amount of research evidence on MNDs in Sub-Saharan Africa is scanty; molecular and genetics-based studies are particularly lacking. While only a few genetic studies were identified, these studies strongly suggest that there appear to be population-specific causes of MNDs among Africans. MND genetic underpinnings vary among different African populations and also between African and non-African populations. Further studies, especially molecular, genetic and genomic studies, will be required to advance our understanding of MND biology among African populations. Insights from these studies would help to improve the timeliness and accuracy of clinical diagnosis and treatment.

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Van der Elst, J. "Regional and current problems in South Africa and their impact on literature with remarks on the evaluation of the Afrikaans Novel." Literator 6, no. 1 (May 9, 1985): 1–9. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v6i1.893.

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My paper centres round a specific situation and its impact on literature in South Africa with special reference to the modern novel in the Afrikaans language and the literary evaluation of the novel. This does not mean that I exclude references to the other genres, poetry and dram a and to literatures in other languages within the South African context. Many of you might know but to clarify I would like to point out that I refer to Afrikaans as the Germanic language originating from the 17th century Dutch mother tongue of approximately 3 ½ million South Africans.

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Sides, Kirk B. "“Narratives of Modernity: Creolization and Early Postcolonial Style in Thomas Mofolo’s Chaka”." Cambridge Journal of Postcolonial Literary Inquiry 5, no. 2 (March 23, 2018): 158–75. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/pli.2017.56.

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This article revisits Thomas Mofolo’s novel Chaka (1925) in order to make an argument for a different historical approach to the field of African literatures. Often called one of the earliest African novels, I argue that how we read Chaka – especially for what Simon Gikandi calls the novel’s “early postcolonial style” – is indicative of a range of assumptions about Africa and its relationship to modernity. In the article, I explore some of the ways in which Chaka has been made to give precedence to other and mostly subsequent imaginings of both the African postcolonial struggle, as well as African ideas on modernity and national culture. Also, through a brief comparison with Chinua Achebe’s foundational Things Fall Apart, the article explores the possibilities of an African discourse on creolization in Chaka, a discourse that rejects the European colonial-encounter narrative of African and postcolonial modernity.

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Cham, Mbye B., and Eldred D. Jones. "Recent Trends in the African Novel. African Literature Today, 13." Canadian Journal of African Studies / Revue Canadienne des Études Africaines 19, no. 1 (1985): 245. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/485074.

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Kangira, Jairos. "Editorial note." Journal of African Languages and Literary Studies 1, no. 3 (December 1, 2020): 5–6. http://dx.doi.org/10.31920/2633-2116/2020/v1n3a0.

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The themes of colonisation and decolonisation dominate in this issue of JoALLS. The colonisation of African communities by European forces was so inhuman and brutal that it left skeletons of African people littered in affected areas on the continent. The trails of murder, massacre, plunder and displacement of defenceless and innocent Africans by marauding, bloodthirsty colonialists are unsavory, heart-rending and disgusting. The crucial role literature plays in documenting the trials and tribulations of Africans cannot be overemphasized. The historical novel and (auto) biography have always become handy in this regard, although caution should be taken on which perspective they are framed. As you read this issue, you will realise that the words 'Germans' and 'genocide' are what linguists call 'collocates'; in other words, you cannot talk of one of these two words without the other as the Germans' heinous crimes were meant to decimate the Herero and Nama populations of Germany South West Africa, now Namibia. The violence against the indigenous African people was not only frightening but also sickening.

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Lombardi-Diop, Cristina. "Filial Descent: The African Roots of Postcolonial Literature in Italy." Forum for Modern Language Studies 56, no. 1 (January 1, 2020): 66–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/fmls/cqz058.

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Abstract The essay concentrates on two seminal postcolonial novels by authors of African descent: Cristina Ubax Ali Farah’s Madre piccola (2007) (Little Mother: A Novel) and Gabriella Ghermandi’s Regina di fiori e di perle (2007) (Queen of Flowers and Pearls). It argues that these works give expression to an African diasporic urban generation that is changing the literary legacy of the Horn of Africa. The co-presence of multiple genres, with orality appearing as a strong influence on their written narrative forms, places these novels within the larger formation of a black African literary tradition. By looking at these two novels from an Africanist perspective, the essay takes into consideration their plurilingual interventions, the use of glossaries and linguistic borrowings, alongside the presence of Somali and Amharic cultural references. It highlights the authorial perspective as a ‘filial descent’ that addresses the complexity of a postcolonial generational shift in contemporary African literature. By placing these works within an African literary tradition and showing their critical de-centring of this tradition, the essay reconfigures a possible space of cultural autonomy for African postcolonial writing, away from the Italocentric space of discourse that has so far dominated its critical reception in Italy.

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Gugler, Josef. "How Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o Shifted from Class Analysis to a Neo-Colonialist Perspective." Journal of Modern African Studies 32, no. 2 (June 1994): 329–39. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022278x00012787.

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Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o has established himself as one of the leading second-generation African writers. His first two novels, Weep Not, Child (London, Heinemann, 1964) and The River Between (London, Heinemann, 1965), written while an undergraduate at Makerere University College, Kampala, brought him recognition as the foremost East African writer. His third novel, A Grain of Wheat (London, Heinemann, 1967), established James Ngugi, as he then called himself, as one of the most distinguished literary voices from Africa. There was a long pause before Ngũgĩ published his next novel, Petals of Blood (London, Heinemann, 1977). The change in name signalled that during the intervening years he had developed a radical new perspective on Kenya, the explicit locale of all his writing.

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Kubata, Bruno Kilunga, Michael Duszenko, Zakayi Kabututu, Marc Rawer, Alexander Szallies, Ko Fujimori, Takashi Inui, et al. "Identification of a Novel Prostaglandin F2α Synthase in Trypanosoma brucei." Journal of Experimental Medicine 192, no. 9 (November 6, 2000): 1327–38. http://dx.doi.org/10.1084/jem.192.9.1327.

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Members of the genus Trypanosoma cause African trypanosomiasis in humans and animals in Africa. Infection of mammals by African trypanosomes is characterized by an upregulation of prostaglandin (PG) production in the plasma and cerebrospinal fluid. These metabolites of arachidonic acid (AA) may, in part, be responsible for symptoms such as fever, headache, immunosuppression, deep muscle hyperaesthesia, miscarriage, ovarian dysfunction, sleepiness, and other symptoms observed in patients with chronic African trypanosomiasis. Here, we show that the protozoan parasite T. brucei is involved in PG production and that it produces PGs enzymatically from AA and its metabolite, PGH2. Among all PGs synthesized, PGF2α was the major prostanoid produced by trypanosome lysates. We have purified a novel T. brucei PGF2α synthase (TbPGFS) and cloned its cDNA. Phylogenetic analysis and molecular properties revealed that TbPGFS is completely distinct from mammalian PGF synthases. We also found that TbPGFS mRNA expression and TbPGFS activity were high in the early logarithmic growth phase and low during the stationary phase. The characterization of TbPGFS and its gene in T. brucei provides a basis for the molecular analysis of the role of parasite-derived PGF2α in the physiology of the parasite and the pathogenesis of African trypanosomiasis.

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Ako Odoi, David, and Ernest Kwesi Klu. "Ethnography Within an Autobiographical Portrait: The Case of Camara Laye’s the African Child." International Journal of Applied Linguistics and English Literature 7, no. 4 (July 1, 2018): 87. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijalel.v.7n.4p.87.

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Africa as a continent has many ethnic groups. For most non-Africans, Africa is a homogenous society and therefore all African societies and cultures are lumped together. There may be many similarities between cultures. However, the subtleties in culture for each group are not obvious to people outside Africa and most often they are ignored. Early novelists from Africa like Camara Laye have sought to project their own unique stories and give an expose on what and why their ethnic group puts up certain practices. In these stories however, the artist also invariably writes the history or ethnography of the group. So, though Laye’s work is regarded as a novel and in most instances as an autobiography of childhood, the work has deep touches of ethnography and therefore provides a bridge between these two spheres. It becomes therefore important to have a close study of these two domains as shown in The African Child. This paper therefore aims at investigating some ethnographic concerns of the Mandinka society and analyzes the purpose and role of two prominent names used in the work. It is these apparently neglected part that aid in projecting Laye’s autobiography.

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Bekler, Ecevit. "The True Face of Pre-Colonial Africa in “Things Fall Apart”." Respectus Philologicus 25, no. 30 (April 25, 2014): 96–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.15388/respectus.2014.25.30.7.

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The Nigerian writer Chinua Achebe is known to be one of the most influential African writers and holds an important place in postcolonial studies. His main aim was to reconstructthe wrongly established beliefs, ideas, and thoughts of the Western world regarding Africa. To realize his aim, he made careful selections in his choice of language, which contributed greatly to sharing his observations, ideas, and beliefs with the rest of the world. He wrote his novels in English, believing that doing so would be more powerful in conveying the true face of pre-colonial Africa, rather than in Nigerian, which could not be as effective as the language of the colonizers. Achebe’s complaint was that the history of Africa had mainly been written by white men who did not belong to his continent and who would not judge life there fairly. With his novels, he changed the prejudices of those who had never been to Africa, and he managed to convert the negative ideas and feelings caused by the portrayal of his continent to positive ones. Things Fall Apart is a novel whose mission is to portray Africa in a very realistic and authentic environment, contrary to the one-sided point of view of the colonizers. The novel presents us, in very authentic language, with many details about the customs, rituals, daily life practices, ceremonies, beliefs, and even jokes of the African Igbos. Chinua Achebe thus realizes his aim in revealing that African tribes, although regarded as having a primitive life and being very far from civilization, in fact had their own life with traditions and a culture specific to themselves.

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Wosu, Kalu. "The Dynamics of Underdevelopment in the African Novel: A Comparative Appraisal of Anglophone and Francophone Fiction." African Research Review 14, no. 1 (April 28, 2020): 95–105. http://dx.doi.org/10.4314/afrrev.v14i1.9.

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The post-independence era in sub-Saharan Africa is characterized by progressive underdevelopment. From the 1960s till date no meaningful development has occurred, and all known development strategies that have so far been adopted have defied all logic. Accordingly, some social scientists and scholars of development theories have come to the sad conclusion that with respect to Africa, all development theories have hit the rocks (Chambua, 1994, p, 37). The implication is that in all spheres of human endeavour, Africa south of the Sahara has failed. The leadership problem is one of the plagues that have bedevilled the West African sub region. And from the failure of leadership stems a truckload of woes: infrastructural deficit, corruption, neo-colonialist propensity, unemployment, ethnicity, educational backwardness, declining living standards, etc. This situation has left Africans disillusioned and disappointed. And African writers from the Anglophone and Francophone worlds have not relented in their condemnation of the post-independence malaise. Their oeuvre is a clear reflection of the battered landscape. Thus, in the works of Chinua Achebe, Wale Okediran, AhmadouKourouma and J.R. Essomba, the reader is led into the very soul of a continent in turmoil. These authors are selected from both sides of the linguistic divide. Whereas, Achebe and Okediran are Anglophones from Nigeria, Kourouma and Essomba are Francophones from Côte d’Ivoire and Cameroon respectively. This paper therefore attempted a diachronic investigation of the works of these authors in order to uncover the pervasive indices of underdevelopment. In other words, between Achebe and Okediran on the one hand, and between Kourouma and Essomba on the other hand, one discovers that the ills which the earlier novelists condemned in the first decade of independence have only gone from bad to worse some five decades later. The methodological approach adopted for this research work is textual analysis/ intertextuality, while privileging a socio-historical framework. Key Words: underdevelopment, West Africa, dynamics, Achebe, Okediran, Kourouma, Essomba

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Spleth, Janice, Mildred Mortimer, and Christopher L. Miller. "Journeys through the French African Novel." African Studies Review 35, no. 2 (September 1992): 104. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/524874.

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Langat, Linda C., Wolfgang Westchnig, Moses K. Langat, and Dulcie A. Mulholland. "Novel Bufadienolides from South African (Hyacinthaceae)." Open Conference Proceedings Journal 4, no. 1 (March 1, 2013): 301. http://dx.doi.org/10.2174/2210289201304010301.

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Petr, Christian, and Mildred Mortimer. "Journeys through the French African Novel." International Journal of African Historical Studies 24, no. 3 (1991): 667. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/219117.

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Milne, Kenneth G., Michael A. J. Ferguson, and Paul T. Englund. "A Novel Glycosylphosphatidylinositol in African Trypanosomes." Journal of Biological Chemistry 274, no. 3 (January 15, 1999): 1465–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.1074/jbc.274.3.1465.

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De Santis, Christopher C. "Today's Narrowly Conceived African American Novel." American Book Review 27, no. 1 (2005): 18–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/abr.2005.0004.

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Sackey, Edward. "Oral Tradition and the African Novel." MFS Modern Fiction Studies 37, no. 3 (1991): 389–407. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/mfs.0.0987.

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Okonwo, Juliet I. "Cultural Revolution and the African Novel." Black Scholar 17, no. 4 (July 1986): 11–16. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00064246.1986.11414416.

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Youssef, Mariam. "INCARCERATION, TRANSFORMATION AND AWARENESS IN THE AFRICAN AMERICAN NOVEL." Gender Questions 3, no. 1 (January 13, 2016): 62–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-8457/820.

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Â This article examines the theme of black male incarceration in the African American novel. Black male incarcerated characters are frequently presented as the most socially aware characters in the novel, in spite of their isolation. In different African American novels, black male incarcerated characters experience a transformation as a result of their incarceration that leads to a heightened awareness of their marginalisation as black men. Because of their compromised agency in incarceration, these characters are not able to express black masculinity in traditional ways. Using novels by Richard Wright, James Baldwin, John A. Williams and Ernest Gaines, I argue that black male incarcerated characters use their heightened awareness as an alternative method of expressing black masculinity.

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Gonçalves, Gláucia Renate. "The written text in a context of orality an approach to the African novel." Estudos Germânicos 10, no. 1 (December 31, 1989): 30. http://dx.doi.org/10.17851/0101-837x.10.1.30-35.

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The purpose of this study is to show how the context of orality deeply influences the structure of the African novel, contributing to its identity. The first part of the paper serves as a support for the second one, in which it emphasizes that the African novel clearly portrays its cultural and political context. The second part, then, analyzes how characteristics of orality are manifested in the written text. O propósito deste estudo é mostrar como o contexto da oralidade influencia profundamente a estrutura do romance africano, contribuindo para a identidade deste. A primeira parte deste trabalho serve como apoio para a segunda, uma vez enfatizando que o romance africano retrata claramente seu contexto político e cultural. A segunda parte, pois, analisa como características da oralidade são manifestadas no texto escrito.

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Duncan, Graham. "ETHIOPIANISM IN PAN-AFRICAN PERSPECTIVE, 1880-1920." Studia Historiae Ecclesiasticae 41, no. 2 (December 18, 2015): 198–218. http://dx.doi.org/10.25159/2412-4265/85.

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This article surveys the origins, development and extent of Ethiopianism (part of the African Initiated Church Movement [AIC]) in Africa which was widespread throughout Africa during the ‘high’ imperial and missionary era (1880-1920) which is the main focus of this article. However, they appear to have a number of common features – response to colonialism, imperialism and the missionary movement, the response of nationalism in the political sphere and Pan-Africanism linked to Ethiopianism in the religious sphere. This article seeks to explore these sometimes indistinguishable features, through selected examples, in a novel way as a Pan-African movement.

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Olugunle, Wole. "The Rejection of Men’s Exploitation by Fellow Men: A Literary Approach in Les Bouts De Bois De Dieu." International Journal of Comparative Literature and Translation Studies 8, no. 1 (January 31, 2020): 21. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.ijclts.v.8n.1p.21.

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The scramble for the partitioning of Africa during the Berlin Conference of 1884-85 in Germany created the ground for the colonialists to make Africans the victims of social alienation and mental dehumanization during that era of colonialism. Thus, African writers that flayed these social and economic vices armed themselves with different approaches both theoretically and stylistically, for the purpose of engagement littéraire. Reading the Senegalese Sembène Ousmane’s Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu (1960), published few days after the independence of most of the African countries, this paper extrapolates the writer as a Marxist, with the prevalence of Marxist tendencies in his literary creation. The paper seeks to establish the fact that women too could be relevant in the nation’s building as they play pivotal roles in the rejection of men’s exploitation by fellow men from the perspective of Marxist Theory. With the methodology of textual analysis, the paper gives the synopsis of the novel before the theoretical approach adopted, the Marxist Theory. This is followed by the Marxist deconstruction of the novel on the rejection of men’s exploitation by men which also sees the women complementarities of men in the modern African society. The paper concludes by recommending how the oppressed could gain a total freedom from the oppressors.

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Iloh, Ngozi Obiajulum. "Une Étude critique de Madame la présidente de Fatou Fanny-Cissé." Neohelicon 48, no. 1 (April 6, 2021): 403–14. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11059-020-00573-8.

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AbstractThis article discusses the Ivorian writer, Fatou Fanny-Cissé’s novel, Madame la présidente, published in 2015. The novel offers a fundamental critique of African democracy and the contemporary politics in Africa. The Republic of Louma is an imaginary country that show-cases electoral crises in an imaginary contemporary continent. The plot about a female dictator has a strong feminist inclination. The feminisation of presidential elections is a caricature of the dictatorial tendencies of African leaders. The themes discussed are true to contemporary political events in Africa as well as other parts of the world. The presentation reveals a lucid picture of feminine dictatorial politics.

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Rabbani, Golam. "Discrimination in “the City”: Race, Class, and Gender in Toni Morrison’s Jazz." Advances in Language and Literary Studies 10, no. 5 (October 30, 2019): 128. http://dx.doi.org/10.7575/aiac.alls.v.10n.5p.128.

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Toni Morrison, the African American Nobel laureate author, explores the realities where African American women face multiple discriminations in her novel Jazz (1992). This article, following the qualitative method on the bibliographic study, examines the discriminations entailing race, class, and gender and presents Harlem as a discriminatory space in the novel. Jazz narrates the struggles of African American women who settled in Harlem in the early twentieth-century. Haunted by the memories of slavery, the female African American characters in the novel find themselves subjugated in the society dominated by white Americans and also experience oppression within their black community. Harlem, denoted as “the City” in the novel, identifies itself as the relational space where black women experience the intersecting subjugation and alienation from their race, class, and gender positions.

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Cloete, M. J. "A study of identity in post-apartheid South African English literature: The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer." Literator 26, no. 1 (July 31, 2005): 49–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v26i1.218.

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In examining aspects of identity in “The Pickup” (2001), Nadine Gordimer’s latest novel, this article indicates new trends in postapartheid South African English literature as well. In the article it is indicated that identity has always been an important theme in Gordimer’s novels. Her earlier novels tend to focus on her characters’ struggle to attain political or racial rather than personal freedom, while her later novels increasingly tend to examine the construction of individual identities. “The Pickup” has continued this search for identity, but against a new and interesting perspective, a perspective that is in line with the political transformation of post-apartheid South Africa after 1994. Moreover, this theme is extremely relevant in the twenty-first century with its increased emphasis on place and globalisation. This article thus examines the theme of identity in “The Pickup”, first against a South African background and then against the backdrop of an unknown town somewhere in the desert – most probably in Northern Africa.

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Justina N., Edokpayi. "Lexico-semantic Features as Creative/Stylistic Strategies in Joseph Edoki’s The Upward Path." International Journal of World Policy and Development Studies, no. 62 (February 15, 2020): 19–27. http://dx.doi.org/10.32861/ijwpds.62.19.27.

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This study examines and explicates the lexico-semantic parameters, which Joseph Edoki deploys to convey his themes in The Upward Path, his second novel. Edoki is a contemporary Nigerian novelist who is preoccupied with the socio-political problems in Africa with the hope of a brighter future. The novel is the story of Mr. Gaga, a Rhwandan American PhD student, on a fact finding mission in Savannah, an African country, for his Thesis entitled ‘’ Why Africa is Underdeveloped’’. For failing to portray Africa in line with the negative views about the continent in his proposal, Gaga’s supervisor recalls him back to America in anger. But in defense of his conviction and research findings about Africa, Gaga remains in Savannah to complete his Thesis. This study is of significance because as a linguistic study, it will serve as a springboard to future researches in the language of African literature. Moreover, the good governance, which Edoki presents in Savannah, the fictional country, in which the novel under study is set, is a blue print for the development of Africa.

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Nwanyanwu, Augustine Uka. "Transculturalism, Otherness, Exile, and Identity in Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s Americanah." Matatu 49, no. 2 (December 20, 2017): 386–99. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-04902008.

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Abstract Today African literature exhibits and incorporates the decentred realities of African writers themselves as they negotiate and engage with multifarious forms of diaspora experience, dislocation, otherness, displacement, identity, and exile. National cultures in the twenty-first century have undergone significant decentralization. New African writing is now generated in and outside Africa by writers who themselves are products of transcultural forms and must now interrogate existence in global cities, transnational cultures, and the challenges of immigrants in these cities. Very few novels explore the theme of otherness and identity with as much insight as Adichie’s Americanah. The novel brings together opposing cultural forms, at once transcending and celebrating the local, and exploring spaces for the self where identity and otherness can be viewed and clarified. This article endeavours to show how African emigrants seek to affirm, manipulate, and define identity, reclaiming a space for self where migrant culture is marginalized. Adichie’s exemplary focus on transcultural engagement in Americanah provides an accurate representation of present-day African literary production in its dialectical dance between national and international particularities.

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Adesokan, Akin. "African Literature in the World: A Teacher's Report." PMLA/Publications of the Modern Language Association of America 131, no. 5 (October 2016): 1462–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1632/pmla.2016.131.5.1462.

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IN Concluding the Editor's Foreword to the 1950 Edition of D. O. Fagunwa's First Novel, the Classic Ogboju Ode Ninu Igbo Irunmale, L. Murby spoke generally of the three novels the Yoruba author had published by then:[I]n their treatment of character and story, in their use of myth and legend and allegory, and in their proverbial and epigrammatic language [the novels] bear definite resemblances to the Odyssey and Beowulf and the early medieval romances on the one hand, and on the other hand to that great cornerstone of the English novel, Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress.

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Kouega, Jean-Paul. "Camfranglais: A novel slang in Cameroon schools." English Today 19, no. 2 (April 2003): 23–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266078403002050.

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Camfranglais is a newly created language, a composite slang used by secondary school pupils in Cameroon, West Africa. It draws its lexicon from French, English, West African Pidgin, various Cameroonian indigenous languages, Latin, and Spanish. Secondary school pupils use it among themselves to exclude outsiders while talking about such matters of adolescent interest as food, drinks, money, sex, and physical looks. There are four sections: language in the Cameroon educational system; Camfranglais defined; an analysis of a sample Camfranglais text; and the semantic domains of Camfranglais. There is a glossary of the terms cited.

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Olaoluwa, Senayon. "Between Magic and Logic: Globalization and the Challenge of Medical Collaboration in Ngugi's Wizard Of The Crow." Perspectives on Global Development and Technology 7, no. 3-4 (2008): 201–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156914908x370719.

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AbstractPerhaps one of the ways by which the Third World, especially Africa, may negotiate its position in the unfolding global politics is through what has been described as the necessary "fusion of ideas and cultures" (Anyidoho 2006:158), along an intellectual axis for Africa's developmental goals. Therefore, this paper seeks to explore one of the areas of such intellectual contributions through a reading and analysis of the developmental angle of Ngugi wa Thiong'o's latest novel Wizard of the Crow (2006). Although the novel has been aptly described as a novel that reflects "on Africa's dysfunctions… and possibilities" (Reed Business Information 2006) in the age of globalization, this paper seeks to transcend the overwhelming concern about unbridled African despotism caught in the mesh of global politics, which the author critiques in the novel and which many a reviewer has commented upon in order to consider the developmental rays of hope that fire through the narrative simultaneously. By so doing, the paper is concerned with one of the "possibilities" in the positive sense of the word along the line of the reinvention of autochthonous African medical practice, otherwise derogatorily designated as magic and sorcery. The reason is that it is obvious in the novel that there is a possibility of investing the indigenous medical practice with a logical modern appeal to the extent of finding collaboration with Western medical practice in order to earn better reception across global spatial boundaries. In the process of this exploration, I also engage the notion of modernity.

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Mabana, Kahiudi Claver. "Léopold S. Senghor, Birago Diop et Chinua Achebe: Maîtres de la parole." Matatu 33, no. 1 (June 1, 2006): 223–40. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/18757421-033001031.

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Léopold Sédar Senghor (1906–2001), Birago Diop (1906–1989) and Chinua Achebe (1931–) were among the first African intellectuals to make their fellow Africans aware of the riches of their oral literature and proud of their cultural treasures. The two francophone writers from Senegal were major figures of the Négritude movement, while the anglophone Nigerian became famous with , the best-known African novel of the last century. The aim of this essay is to show the importance of the impact of African orature in the creative writing of African authors despite the ostensible differences in their colonial linguistic backgrounds.

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Sellin, Eric, and Chantal Zabus. "The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of language in the West African Europhone Novel." World Literature Today 66, no. 4 (1992): 766. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40148789.

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EDWIN, SHIRIN. "“Working” and “Studying” Muslim Women: African Feminist Theory and the African Novel." Women's Studies 37, no. 5 (July 8, 2008): 519–47. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00497870802165486.

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Ashcoroft, Bill, and Chantal Zabus. "The African Palimpsest: Indigenization of Language in the West African Europhone Novel." Modern Language Review 88, no. 1 (January 1993): 191. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3730831.

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Gibbs, James, and M. Keith Booker. "The African Novel in English: An Introduction." World Literature Today 73, no. 2 (1999): 376. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/40154820.

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