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Journal articles on the topic "African prose literature"

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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 (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 consider
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Nkechinyere, Eze Mabel, and Nnani Henrietta Nonye. "Prose literature as a Means of Expressing African Culture a Study of Chinua Achebes things Fall Apart." Indonesian Journal of Applied and Industrial Sciences (ESA) 3, no. 1 (2024): 67–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.55927/esa.v3i1.7375.

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This study examines prose literature as a means of expressing, African culture as presented in Buchi Emecheta’s “The joys of motherhood and Chinua Achebe’s Things fall apart respectively. The researcher looked at the history of African culture in Nigeria. A number of critical essays in which some of the realities that portray African culture were reviewed. It came to lime light that there is African culture among Africans as opposed to the notion being portrayed to the outside world by the Europeans. The conclusion is that these works, Things fall apart and The joys of motherhood continue to b
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Etyang, Philip, Justus Siboe Makokha, and Oluoch Obura. "Picaresque narrative techniques and popular literature in African prose fiction." Journal of Languages, Linguistics and Literary Studies 2, no. 4 (2022): 187–98. http://dx.doi.org/10.57040/jllls.v2i4.341.

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The Picaresque tradition is a mode of writing that began in Spain in the 16th century and flourished in the 17th and 18th centuries throughout the rest of Europe. It is a literary tradition that has continued to influence modern fiction writing to date. The current paper examined the picaresque and popular African literature narrative techniques through conducting an in-depth analysis of the following texts; Kill Me Quick, Mission to Kala, The Angels Die, and A Sport of Nature. To effectively address the task, the study examined narratives and narrative techniques in the prose fiction under st
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Aboubakar, Gounougo, and Saran Cissoko. "Prose poétique africaine et philosophie de la création verbale." Elyra, no. 19 (2022): 41–53. http://dx.doi.org/10.21747/21828954/ely19a3.

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The question of mixing genres or generic hybridization does not necessarily arise for African literature whose nature is to be hybrid at the origin. The African creator does not choose to make of the mixture of the kinds, it is the mixture of the kinds which offers itself to him through the total word which it uses. To speak then of poetic prose is to speak of African written literature as a whole. This is the heritage of the first black artists of the emancipatory struggles, among others the negritudians, insofar as they are the manatees who drank from the source of Simal, that is to say here
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Dick, Angela Ngozi. "Adichie’s Commitment to Female Biological Experiences in African Literature." English Linguistics Research 11, no. 2 (2022): 1. http://dx.doi.org/10.5430/elr.v11n2p1.

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Molara Ogundipe-Leslie (1987) challenged African women writers to be committed about women and their biological experiences in wife repudiation and widowhood in her article entitled “The Female Writer and Her Commitment”. In view of this challenge, this article examined Adichie’s portrayal of female biological experiences in Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun, Americanah, the short story entitled Imitation and The Visit. The theoretical framework used in this article is African Feminism. It is established that in Purple Hibiscus, adolescent sexuality is expressed within the ambience of Igbo
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Munslow Ong, Jade. "Decolonizing the English Literature GCE A-Level via the South African Ex-Centric." English: Journal of the English Association 70, no. 270 (2021): 244–52. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/efab009.

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Abstract In this snapshot article, I outline the background and context for the development of research-led teaching activities aimed at students pursuing the WJEC Eduqas GCE A-Level English Literature qualification. The aims of these activities are threefold: first, to assist students’ learning and preparation for the exam component ‘Unseen Prose’ (worth 10% of the overall qualification); second, to extend the impact of AHRC-funded research on South African literature to 16- to 18-year-old learners; and third, to mobilize the first two aims in support of decolonizing efforts in English Studie
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Porter, Abioseh Michael. "Post-Civil War Literary Fiction: A Catalyst for Understanding Sierra Leone's Recent Past, Present, and Future." African Conflict & Peacebuilding Review 13, no. 1 (2023): 129–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.2979/acp.2023.a900893.

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ABSTRACT: Until very recently, it seemed that a major difference between the literature of Sierra Leone and the literatures of its other West African neighbors was the absence, especially in prose fiction, of a sustained body of work by Sierra Leonean authors. This situation might seem mystifying to scholars of Sierra Leone's social and intellectual history because, after all, that country had played a major and pioneering role in the development and spreading of Western education in West Africa. This fundamental narrative of the inability of Sierra Leone's creative writers to produce high qua
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Glover-Meni, N. Glover-Meni. "Orality in Ghanaian Newspaper Narratives: An Analysis of Yankah’s Woes of a Kwatriot." Pentvars Business Journal 10, no. 2 (2017): 77–86. http://dx.doi.org/10.62868/pbj.v10i2.138.

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The study explores the influence of orality on Ghanaian prose by explicating the verbal art strategies utilized by Yankah (1990) in his newspaper writing, Woes of a Kwatriot, and, by so doing, illustrating how the interaction between literature and journalism help in bringing about a vector of expression that reveals indigenous literary values. Yankah foregrounds tensions in the Ghanaian society using the medium of orality in a newspaper format, showcasing how indigenous literary modes can facilitate and enhance the quality of the journalism prose. In other words, Yankah saw the emergence of e
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Obiajulu, Eziechine Augustine. "Protest and Conflict in African Literature: The Nigerian Experience Expressed in Selected Plays by Zulu Sofola and Tess Onwueme." CLAREP Journal of English and Linguistics 4 (October 10, 2022): 199–215. http://dx.doi.org/10.56907/g2t5zr7s.

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The prevailing social situation in a society at any given time determines the temperament of its literature. African literature of the post–independence period is generally reactive in temperament. This emergent trend in African literature is as a result of the prevailing economic, social and political situations in most African nations. In Nigerian society, for instance, there is inequality, injustice, unemployment, hunger, marginalization, environmental degradation, corruption, political instability, socio-economic ills and religious violence. Obviously, these suffocating experiences are bou
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Gadomska, Katarzyna. "Between the real and the supernatural, between Africa and the West: Anna Swoboda on the trail of Ken Bugul." Romanica Cracoviensia 22, no. 3 (2022): 317–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.4467/20843917rc.22.029.16194.

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The article discusses the main premises of Anna Swoboda’s monograph La Prose de Ken Bugul : entre le réel et le surnaturel. Swoboda assumes that the key to deciphering the characteristics of Ken Bugul’s prose is the interpenetration of the two dimensions present in the work of this contemporary Senegalese writer: the real and the supernatural. The book analyzes the fantastic, marvelous and uncanny elements that constitute the supernatural aspect of Bugul’s hybrid prose, as well as examines the fragmentation and multifaceted identity of the autofictional female protagonist (in the part devoted
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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "African prose literature"

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Mtuze, Peter Tshobiso. "A feminist critique of the image of woman in the prose works of selected Xhosa writers (1909 - 1980)." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/23636.

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The study examines, from a feminist point of view, the stereotypic image of woman in Xhosa prose fiction from pre-literate times to the era of written literature (1909 - 1980). Attaching feminist critical theory to conventional literary characterisation gives this pioneering study a human dime,n sion that is bound to rejuvenate traditional critical appredation and highlight the tremendous power of art to reflect or parallel real-life experiences. Consequently, the study transcends the confines of traditional literary criticism. It throws interdisciplinary light on the African feminist dilemma
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Wamitila, Kyallo Wadi. "A philosophical labyrinth: tracing two critical motifs in Kezilahabi´s prose works." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-93522.

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This study aims at studying one of the most important contemporary Kiswahili writers: Euphrase Kezilahabi. In a way this paper can be seen as a continuation of my earlier articles on the same writer. It is definitely different from the other ones though a certain thread links them: the interest in Kezilahabi`s philosophy. In this paper my interest is with two main motifs namely contemptus mundi and carpe diem. Contemptus mundi is a Latin expression for contemptible world, world as a bad place and one that is perceived contemptuously. I intend to explore the said motifs in Kezilahabi\'s prose w
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Traoré, Flavia Aiello. "Investigating topics and style in Vuta N`Kuvute by Shafi Adam Shafi." Universitätsbibliothek Leipzig, 2012. http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa-91363.

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In the last decades many literary critics have appraised the works of Zanzibarian writers; referring to the prose of Mohamed Suleiman Mohamed, Said Ahmed Mohamed and Shafi Adam Shafi, M M. Mulokozi wrote in 1985: \"The most significant, and certainly most spectacular, development in the Swahili fiction of the Seventies and Eighties has been the emergence of Zanzibar as the producer of the best Swahili fiction to date, and the apparent torch bearer for the Kiswahili novel of the near future\" (Arnold 1985: 174). The same enthusiasm was shared by R. Ohly who, confronting the novels written by Za
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Huguley, Piper Gian. "Why Tell the Truth When a Lie Will Do?: Re-Creations and Resistance in the Self-Authored Life Writing of Five American Women Fiction Writers." unrestricted, 2006. http://etd.gsu.edu/theses/available/etd-04252006-174728/.

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Thesis (Ph. D.)--Georgia State University, 2006.<br>Title from title screen. Audrey Goodman, committee chair; Thomas L. McHaney, Elizabeth West, committee members. Electronic text (253 p.) : digital, PDF file. Description based on contents viewed May15, 2007. Includes bibliographical references (243-253).
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Kemp, Anna Francina. "Die onontkombaarheid van die verlede." Diss., Pretoria : [s.n.], 2009. http://upetd.up.ac.za/thesis/available/etd-02222010-172655.

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Ntuli, Joshua Hlalanempi. "The conception and evolution of characterization in the Zulu novel." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10530/381.

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Submitted to the Faculty of Arts in fulfilment of the requirements for the Degree of Master of Arts in the Department of African Languages at the University of Zululand, 1998.<br>In this research work an attempt is made to clear certain misconceptions and generalizations which prevail amongst certain literary critics, viz that characterization in the Zulu novel is static and should be modelled on the Eurocentric canon. Investigation into this problem shows the opposite. Particular attention is devoted to demonstrating that characterization in the Zulu novel is evolutionary. And it is indeed
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Makgamatha, P. M. (Phaka Moffat). "The nature of prose narrative in Northern Sotho: from orality to literacy." Thesis, 1990. http://hdl.handle.net/10500/27432.

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The basic aim of this study is to investigate the nature of the narrative, concerning itself with the structures inherent in a system of signs which reveals the communicative function of literature. The general aim is to interpret the meaning of the narrative against the cultural background. The study makes a synthesis of formalist and structuralist points of view on the relations between story and discourse. A comparison of the oral and written narratives reveals that the discourse of the latter displays more artistry than that of the former. An examjnation of the problems of theme se
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Griessel, Karin. "Depicting the dispossessed in the 1940s: an analysis of Holmer Johanssen's Die Onterfdes and Peter Abraham's Mine Boy." Thesis, 2015. http://hdl.handle.net/10539/16706.

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Christison, Grant. "African Jerusalem : the vision of Robert Grendon." Thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2172.

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This thesis discovers the spiritual and aesthetic vision of poet-journalist Robert Grendon (c. 1867–1949), a man of Irish-Herero parentage. It situates him in the wider Swedenborgian discourse regarding African ‘regeneration’. While preserving the overall diachronic continuity of a literary biography, it treats his principal thematic preoccupations synchronically. The objective has been to show the imaginative ways in which he employs his rich and diverse religio-philosophical background to account for South Africa’s social problems, to pass judgement upon the principal players, and to point o
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Bregin, Elana. "The identity of difference : a critical study of representations of the Bushmen." Thesis, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/10413/2550.

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More than any other people, the Bushmen - like the Aborigines on the Australian continent - have epitomized the sub-human other in South African historiography. My primary concern in this study will be to interrogate the representations that gave rise to such entrenched notions of Bushman alterity, and the consequences these have had for Bushman lives. Through an assessment of the writings of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century travellers, missionaries, settlers, colonial officials and scholars, I shall examine understandings of ‘otherness’ and ‘difference’, and the ways in which alterity
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Books on the topic "African prose literature"

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Chukwu, Onyema. The child in African literature: A study of prose narratives. West and Solomon Publishing Coy. Ltd., 2006.

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Moolla, Afzal. Struggle, exile & love: Prose and poems. Ahmed Kathrada Foundation, 2020.

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Kan-si. Imagine Africa. Island Position, Pirogue Collective, Gorée Institute, 2011.

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1927-, Long Richard A., and Collier Eugenia W, eds. Afro-American writing: An anthology of prose and poetry. 2nd ed. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.

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Harold, Bloom, ed. Black American prose writers: Before the Harlem renaissance. Chelsea House, 1994.

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Harold, Bloom. Black American prose writers of the Harlem renaissance. Chelsea House, 1994.

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Collier, Eugenia W., and Long Richard A. Afro-American writing: An anthology of prose and poetry. 2nd ed. Pennsylvania State University Press, 1985.

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Jaycox, Faith. Ebony angels: A collection of African-American poetry and prose. Crown Trade Paperbacks, 1996.

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Osofisan, Femi. The genre of prose fiction: Two complementary views. Department of Literature in English, University of Ife, 1986.

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Stout, Renée. Hoodoo you love: Prose, poetry, and art from the Black Rooster Workshop. Bootleg Books/Black Rooster Press, 1998.

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Book chapters on the topic "African prose literature"

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Clark, Priscilla P. "West African prose fiction." In Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages. Akadémiai Kiadó, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/chlel.vi.12cla.

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Schroeder, Doris, Kate Chatfield, Roger Chennells, et al. "Engaged Research: Strengthening Research Teams Through Community Researchers." In Vulnerability Revisited. Springer Nature Switzerland, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-57896-0_5.

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AbstractEngaged research, which strengthens research teams through community researchers, offers many opportunities and challenges. From better access to community members who are hard to reach, to the collection of more meaningful and authentic data, and greater trustworthiness of research findings, the benefits for research are manifold. However, research has also shown that community researchers might be overtly biased, only collect superficial data or lack the confidence to probe deeply enough, among other challenges. Simultaneously, the literature on community researchers is heavily biased towards high-income countries, and there is very little to be found on experiences from low-and middle-income countries that goes beyond assistance in obtaining informed consent. This chapter starts to close that gap by presenting a case study involving 12 community researchers from the South African San community. Collecting no personal data and obtaining all research input through community researchers shows that research led by vulnerable groups for vulnerable groups is possible. It is one way of ensuring that the San, and wider research communities, have access to research they can trust.
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"10. Prose." In The Columbia Guide to Central African Literature in English Since 1945. Columbia University Press, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.7312/rosc13042-012.

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Barber, Karin. "Literature in Yorùbá: poetry and prose; traveling theater and modern drama." In The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. Cambridge University Press, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/chol9780521832755.020.

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"Scheherazade’s Dilemma: — An Exploration of André Brink’s Prose Oeuvre Published After 2000." In The Changing Face of African Literature / Les nouveaux visages de la littérature africaine. Brill | Rodopi, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789042028852_009.

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Maxwell, William J. "Introduction." In F.B. Eyes. Princeton University Press, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691130200.003.0001.

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This introductory chapter first discusses the FBI's surveillance African American writers and imitation of black prose as part of its struggle against African American protest. It argues that unlike nearly every other institution of U.S. literary study, prone to showing interest only during well-promoted black renaissances, the Bureau rarely took its eyes off the latest in African American writing between 1919 and 1972. And during this more-than-fifty-year period, the whole of its Hoover era, it never dismissed this writing as an impractical vogue relevant only to blacks (or to bleeding-heart white “Negrotarians,” for that matter). Relying on dueling public documents of African American literature and FBI literary commentary, the book helps establish their surprising depth of contact between spy-critics and black Bureau writers. An overview of the four parts of the book is also presented.
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Hack, Daniel. "The Citational Soul of Black Folk: W.E.B. Du Bois." In Reaping Something New. Princeton University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.23943/princeton/9780691196930.003.0007.

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This chapter turns to W. E. B. Du Bois's The Souls of Black Folk and its deployment of nineteenth-century British literature. Du Bois himself tends to attract the adjective “Victorian” as a descriptor—of his intellectual formation, his prose style, his aesthetic, his morality—with greater frequency than virtually any other figure in the African American literary and intellectual tradition. The chapter shows that critics have been too quick to generalize about the presence of nineteenth-century British literature in Souls. They have rarely asked why Du Bois selected the specific authors, texts, and passages he cites or how these citations contribute to and intervene in a tradition of African American citation and intertextuality. Addressing these questions not only nuances our understanding of Du Bois's rhetorical strategy but also leads us to reconsider a seemingly settled question in the scholarship on Souls: the role Du Bois assigns culture in the fight for racial equality.
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Finnegan, Ruth. "Prose Narratives I. Problems and Theories." In Oral Literature in Africa. Open Book Publishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0025.12.

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Finnegan, Ruth. "Prose Narratives II. Content and Form." In Oral Literature in Africa. Open Book Publishers, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.11647/obp.0025.13.

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Johnson, Charles S. "From “These ‘Colored United States,’ VIII—Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob,” The Messenger 5 (December 1923)." In Roots of the Black Chicago Renaissance. University of Illinois Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5622/illinois/9780252043055.003.0015.

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Editors’ Note: In our second literary selection—excerpts from Charles S. Johnson’s 1923 essay “Illinois: Mecca of the Migrant Mob”—the famed sociologist renders a broad-stroke account of consolidation and growth of the Black Metropolis. This essay, like many pieces of historical, sociological, and journalistic writing emanating from Chicago contributed to a literature of fact that was characteristic of early African American literary work in the city. While Johnson’s assertions about the paucity of black intellectual and cultural life are challenged throughout the current volume, equally important to note is the stylistic strategy with which he presents his analysis of “this Colored Chicago—the dream city—city of the dreadful night!” His elegant, high-keyed prose employs metaphor and other literary devices and arrays facts with novelistic selectivity and pacing. In this manner, Johnson’s essay looks ahead to a mutually beneficial interpenetration of fiction and sociological writing that would mark many of the most notable works of the Black Chicago Renaissance....
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Conference papers on the topic "African prose literature"

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Sabrina da sIlva Santos, Alexcia, Rayane Karolliny Porciúncula Duarte, and Maria Juciely Barbosa Calado. "Literatura africana de língua portuguesa: relato de experiência sobre a oficina “a morte como apagamento identitário na prosa lusófona africana”." In Simpósio FBJ 2019. Even3, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.29327/simpfbj2019.226240.

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Onyewuchi, Francis A., Michael A. Adewusi, Peter Okebukola, Tokunbo Odekeye, Olasunkanmi Gbeleyi, and Fred Awaah. "Breaking the Backbone of Difficult Concepts in the New Secondary School Physics Curriculum in Africa." In 28th iSTEAMS Multidisciplinary Research Conference AIUWA The Gambia. Society for Multidisciplinary and Advanced Research Techniques - Creative Research Publishers, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.22624/aims/isteams-2021/v28n3p7.

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The new senior secondary school physics curriculum for Anglophone West African countries came into use in 2015. Since the beginning of its implementation, even though, the performance of the candidates has not been high, yet reported empirical studies on the difficulty level of the content, and specifically the topics or concepts have been scant. Moreover, there have never been any published studies which conducted an in-depth probe into the aspects of the topics students find difficult in physics and science in general, beyond mere cataloguing of such topics, nor have there been any, in which
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