Escolar Documentos
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Cultura Documentos
African literature is literature of and from Africa and includes oral literature (or "orature", in
the term coined by Ugandan scholar Pio Zirimu).
As George Joseph notes in his chapter on African literature in Understanding Contemporary
Africa, whereas European views of literature often stressed a separation of art and content,
African awareness is inclusive:
"Literature" can also imply an artistic use of words for the sake of art alone. ...traditionally,
Africans do not radically separate art from teaching. Rather than write or sing for beauty in itself,
African writers, taking their cue from oral literature, use beauty to help communicate important
truths and information to society
AFRICAN PEOPLE
The native ethnic groups in Africa number in the thousands, each generally having its
own language (or dialect of a language) and culture. The ethnolinguistic groups include various AfroAsiatic, Indo-European, Khoisan, Niger-Congo and Nilo-Saharanpopulations.
African Tradition
Kidnapping your bride In the Sudanese Latuka tribe, when a man wants to marry a woman, he kidnaps
her. Elderly members of his family go and ask the girls father for her hand in marriage, and if dad agrees,
he beats the suitor as a sign of his acceptance of the union. If the father disagrees, however, the man
might forcefully marry the woman anyway.