Litterae Africae

Litterae Africae sunt litterae in vel ex Africa natae, litteris oralibus (oraturaVocabulum a Pio Zirimu erudito Ugandensi excogitatum (George 1996: 303).) non exclusis.

Europaeae litterarum normae artem resque contentas saepe separat, quas conscientia Africana coniungere solet:
Litterae etiam artifex vocabulorum usum solum artis gratia significare potest. . . . Secundum traditionem, Africani artem a doctrina funditus non distinguunt. Pro scribendo vel canendo pulchritudinis causa, scriptores Africani, indicia litterarum oralium sequentes, pulchritudine utuntur ad veritates et res magni momenti societati humanae communicandas. Singula quidem res pulchra habetur ob veritates quas retegit et communitates quas condere adiuvat.Anglice: "Literature" can also simply mean 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. Indeed, an object is considered beautiful because of the truths it reveals and the communities it helps to build (Joseph 1996: 304).

Wole Soyinka est primus scriptor Africanus post libertatem captam qui Praemium Nobelianum Litterarum accepit. Quod praemium Albertus Camus, in Algeria natus, anno 1957 antea acceperat.

Scriptores Africani et eorum mythistoriae selectae
Petrus Abrahams (Africa Australis): Mine Boy, This Island Now, A Wreath for Udomo
Chinua Achebe (Nigeria): Arrow of God, No Longer At Ease, Things Fall Apart, A Man of the People, Anthills of the Savannah
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria): Purple Hibiscus, Half of a Yellow Sun
Fadhy Mtanga (Tanzania): Kizungumkuti,   Huba, Fungate
Christopher Zacharia Lameck (Tanzania): The Mythical Father,  Lost, Ztraceni European Madness
Iosephus Eduardus Agualusa (Angola): Rainy Season, Creole, The Book of Chameleons, My Father's Wives
Mohammed Naseehu Ali (Ghana): The Prophet of Zongo Street
Germanus Almeida (Caput Viride): O dia das calças roladas, The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo
Elechi Amadi (Nigeria): The Concubine, The Great Ponds, Sunset in Biafra
Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana): The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Two Thousand Seasons
Sefi Atta (Nigeria): Everything Good Will Come
Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana): Harmattan Rain
Mariama Bâ (Senegallia): Une si longue lettre ('Epistula tam longa')
Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia) Black Mamba Boy, The Orchard of Lost Souls
Christophorus Barnard (Africa Australis): Bundu, Mahala
Mongo Beti (Cameronia): The Poor Christ of Bomba'
Andreas Brink (Africa Australis): 'n Droe Wit Seisoen (A Dry White Season), Gerugte van Reen (Rumours of Rain)
J. M. Coetzee (Africa Australis): Disgrace, Life & Times of Michael K
Mia Couto (Mozambica): Terra Sonâmbula (A Sleepwalking Land)
Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (Mozambica): Ualalapi
Ludovicus Bernardus Honwana (Mozambica): Nós Matamos O Cão-Tinhoso e Outros Contos, We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories
Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabua): Nervous Conditions
Mohammed Dib (Algeria): La grande maison
E. K. M. Dido (Africa Australis): 'n Stringetjie Blou Krale (A String of Blue Beads), Die Storie van Monica Peters (The Story of Monica Peters)
Assia Djebar (Algeria): Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde
K. Sello Duiker (Africa Australis): Thirteen Cents, The Quiet Violence of Dreams
Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria): The Bride Price, The Joys of Motherhood
Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa (Nigeria): Ogboju odẹ ninu igbo irunmalẹ ('Silva daemonum mille')
Nuruddin Farah (Somalia): From a Crooked Rib, Maps, Sweet and Sour Milk
Athol Fugard (Africa Australis): Tsotsi
Nadine Gordimer (Africa Australis): Burger's Daughter, The Conservationist, July's People
Alexander La Guma (Africa Australis): In the Fog of the Seasons' End, The Stone-Country, Time of the Butcherbird, A Walk in the Night
Bessie Head (Botsuana): When Rain Clouds Gather, Maru, A Question of Power
Moses Isegawa (Uganda): Abyssinian Chronicles
Rayda Jacobs (Africa Australis): The Slave Book, Eyes of the Sky, Confessions of a Gambler
Tahar Ben Jelloun (Marocum): The Sacred Night, The Sand Child, This Blinding Absence of Light
Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegallia): L'Aventure Ambiguë
Yasmina Khadra (Algeria): The Swallows of Kabul
Camara Laye (Guinea): The African Child (L'Enfant noir), The Radiance of the King
Naguib Mahfouz (Aeyptus): The Beginning and the End, Cairo Trilogy, Children of Gebelawi, Midaq Alley
Carolus Mangua (Kenia): A Tail in the Mouth
Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Nigeria): In Dependence
Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabua): The House of Hunger
Dalene Matthee (Africa Australis): Kringe in 'n bos ('Circuli in silva')
Zakes Mda (Africa Australis): Ways of Dying, The Heart of Redness
Thomas Mofolo (Africa Australis et Lesothum): Chaka
Bai Tamia Moore (Liberia): Murder in the Cassava Patch
Meja Mwangi (Kenia): Carcase for Hounds, Going Down River Road, Kill Me Quick
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenia): A Grain of Wheat, Matigari, Petals of Blood, Weep Not, Child, Wizard of the Crow
Ludovicus Nkosi (Africa Australis): Mandela's Ego, Mating Birds, Underground People
Flora Nwapa (Nigeria): Efuru, Idu, One is Enough, Never Again, Women are Different
Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria): Zahrah the Windseeker
Beniaminus Okri (Nigeria): The Famished Road
Deon Opperman (South Africa): Donkerland ('Terra obscura'), Kruispad ('Compitum'), Hartland ('Interiora')
Yambo Ouologuem (Malium): Le Devoir de ViolenceAlanus Paton (Africa Australis): Cry, The Beloved CountryPepetela (Angola): Muana Puó, Mayombe, A Gloriosa FamíliaSol Plaatje (Africa Australis): MhudiNawal El Saadawi (Aegyptus) : Woman at Point ZeroTayeb Salih (Sudania): Season of Migration to the NorthWilton Sankawulo (Liberia): Birds Are SingingKarel Schoeman (Africa Australis): n Ander Land ('Alia civitas'), Na die Geliefde Land ('Terra promissa')
Oliva Schreiner (Africa Australis): The Story of an African FarmBeniaminus Sehene (Ruanda): Le Feu sous la Soutane ('Ignis sub tunica')
Ousmane Sembène (Senegallia): Xala, The Black Docker ('Le Docker Noir'), God's Bits of Wood ('Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu'), The Last of the Empire ('Le dernier de l'Empire'), Tribal Scars ('Voltaïque')
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria): The Interpreters, Seasons of AnomyAmos Tutuola (Nigeria): The Palm Wine Drinkard, My Life in the Bush of Ghosts, Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle, Feather Woman of the Jungle, he Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town, Ajaiyi and his Inherited PovertyMarlena van Niekerk (Africa Australis): Triomf ('Triumphus')
Yvonne Vera (Zimbabua): Butterfly BurningIosephua Luandino Vieira (Angola): LuandaIosephus Galfridus Walters (Liberia): Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess (1891)
Birhanu Zerihun (Aethiopia): Ye'imba debdabbéwoch ('Litterae Lacrimosae')
Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania): Paradise (1994)

Notabiles poetae Africani

Chinua Achebe (Nigeria)
Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana)
Iared Angira (Kenia)
Kofi Anyidoho (Ghana)
Kofi Awoonor  (Ghana)
Fadhy Mtanga (Tanzania)
Breyten Breytenbach (Africa Australis)
Dionysius Brutus (Africa Australis)
Abena Busia (Ghana)
Ioannes Pepper Clark (Nigeria)
Iosephus Craveirinha (Mozambica)
Viriatus Clemente da Cruz (Angola)
Hadraawi (Somalia)
Ingrid Jonker (Africa Australis)
Ionathan Kariara (Kenia)
Susanna Kiguli (Uganda)
Ahmadou Kourouma (Litus Eburneum)
Antjie Krog (Africa Australis)
Iacobus Mapanje (Malavium)
Eugenius Marais (Africa Australis)
Donaldus Mattera (Africa Australis)
Bai Tamia Moore (Liberia)
Togara Muzanenhamo (Zimbabua)
Arthurus Nortje (Africa Australis)
Gabriel Okara (Nigeria)
Nii Parkes (Ghana)
Christophorus Okigbo (Nigeria)
Beniaminus Okri (Nigeria)
Okot p'Bitek (Uganda)
Lenrie Peters (Gambia)
Ioannes Iosephus Rabearivelo (Madagascaria)
Iacobus Rabemananjara (Madagascaria)
Elias Rajaonarison (Madagascaria)
Ny Avana Ramanantoanina (Madagascaria)
Ioannes Verdi Salomon Razakandraina (Dox) (Madagascaria)
David Rubadiri (Malavium, Uganda)
Tijan Sallah (Gambia)
Leopoldus Sédar Senghor (Senegallia)
Bewketu Seyoum (Aethiopia)
Warsan Shire
Adam Small (Africa Australis)
Wole Soyinka (Nigeria)
Véronique Tadjo (Litus Eburneum)
Armenius Vieira (Caput Viride)
Patricia Jabbeh Wesley (Liberia)

Litterae Americae Australis
Litterae Asiae
Litterae Aegypti
Litterae Anglicae
Litterae Arabicae
Litterae Europae
Litterae Oceaniae
Poesis in Africa

Notae

Bibliographia
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