Question

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Answer 1

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Characteristics of African literature include slave narratives, protests against colonization, calls for independence, African pride, hope for the future, and dissent.

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Answer 2

Explanation:

Chinua Achebe

THOUGHTS ON THE AFRICAN NOVEL

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When I was first invited to this conference* I was asked to speak about

the African writer and the English language. I fired back a flat No!

Then I was as ked to say what I should prefer to talk about. I said

nothing; I had no idea what I wanted to talk about. Finally I was

confronted with a fait accompli in the form of a printed programme in

which The African Novel was put down against my name. I had then to

accept, having twice already proved uncooperative.

But as it happened I had just about this time resolved not to make

any further pronouncements on the African novel or African literature

or any of these large topics unles:; I dreamt up something really novel

and spectacular t o say. But perhaps the day-to-day thoughts and

worries are just as important, being always with us.

Many years ago at a writers' conference in Makerere, Uganda, I

a ttempted (not very successfully) t o get my colleagues to defer a

definition of African literature which was causing us a lot of trouble. I

suggested tha t the t ask might bec.;:,me easier when more of our produce

had entered the market. That ww; ten years ago. I was saying in effect

that African literature would define itself in action; so why not leave it

alone? I still think it was excellent advice even if it carried a hint of

evasiveness or even superstition.

I do admit to certain residual superstitions; and one of the strongest

is the fear of names, of hurrying to a conclusion when the issue is still

wide open. If I may paraphrase a proverb which seems to me

appropriate: Do not underrate a day while an hour of light remains. In

other words, be careful, for one hour is enough to do a man in.

*A conference on African Literature at Dalhc·usie University, Halifax, May 1973.