Romance Novellas And The Postcolonial African City
By Emily Callaci Themetropole
In the late 1970s, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania was one of the most rapidly growing cities in the world. Each year,...
An Obscure Afro-Brazilian “Colony” In Ghana: Accra’s Tabon Community
By Hermann W. von Hesse SOURCE: The Metropole
In the summer of 2017, I returned from Madison, Wisconsin to Accra – my hometown and Ghana’s...
Major Elements in African Literature
Source: Britannica.com
African literature, the body of traditional oral and written literatures in Afro-Asiatic and African languages together with works written by Africans in European...
The Beautiful Things a Lil Bit
By Nana S. Achampong
when I was growing up, my mother was a midwifery teacher; my absent father was a lawyer who did not...
Thoughts on contemporary African Literary criticism
By Tony E. Afejuku, The Guardian, Nigeria
19 February 2017: What is the correct state of contemporary African Literary criticism? This is certainly not a simple...
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on Ama Ata Aidoo – books podcast
In this podcast recorded in 2012, author Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie shares why she admires the 'old-fashioned social realism' of the Ghanaian writer's No Sweetness...
Acculturation and Language Acquisition
Acculturation and Language Acquisition: A Look at Schumann's Acculturation Model
By Jacob Chizzo, Islamic Saudi Academy, Alexandria, Virginia. Submitted June 30, 2002
Abstract
This is a brief overview of the...
Phases of African Postcolonial Literature
BY NASRULLAH MAMBROL
African literature, an area where the relationship of the artist with the land is absolutely recognised and understood, covers a huge range of...