LESSON 1: INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN LITERATURE THE BEGINNINGS OF AFRICAN LITERATURE The first African literature is circa 2300-2100‚ when ancient Egyptians begin using burial texts to accompany their dead. These include the first written accounts of creation - the Memphite Declaration of Deities. Not only that‚ but ’papyrus ’‚ from which we originate our word for paper‚ was invented by the Egyptians‚ and writing flourished. In contrast‚ Sub-Saharan Africa feature a vibrant and varied oral
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fool’s wish hath bent man into a crooked being‚ to the point of forcefully enlisting the aid of unwilling others to achieve this impossible goal. One of those among the unwilling was in life my grandfather. My name is Timothy Equiano‚ grandson of the late Olaudah Equiano‚ one of the many African slaves who were whisked away from their homes into this land fully without their consent. The intense environment and harsh treatment that he and his brethren endured during their life as slaves in America
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Slavery was used widely in the 1700s. Mainly the Americans‚ the French and the British used it‚ but other countries and empires also used it. Most of the time‚ black people were used as slaves‚ but there were exceptions. At the time‚ America‚ Britain and France were mainly white countries‚ so racism was huge at the time. Names were used to insult and discriminate each other and violence was used a lot. But when slavery was first introduced‚ white people saw them as the equivalent of animals and they
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The Slave Ship by Marcus Rediker is a great fiction novel that describes the horrifying experiences of Africans‚ seamen‚ and captains on their journey through the Middle Passage. The Middle Passage marked the water way in the Atlantic Ocean between Africa and the Americas. The use of slaves provided a great economy for the European countries due to the fact that these African slaves provided free labor while cultivating sugar cane in the Caribbean and America. Rediker describes the slave migration
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By the early nineteenth century‚ civil rights agitators like Maria W. Stewart felt no compunction in affirming God’s investment in both the eternal and the earthy redemption of black people. Echoing‚ perhaps even alluding to‚ Wheatley’s famous quatrain (‘Twas mercy brought me from my Pagan land‚/Taught my benighted soul to understand/That there’s a God‚ that there’s a Savior too;/Once I redemption neither sought or knew./Some view our sable race with scornful eye‚/“There color is a diabolic die.”/Remember
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Lastly‚ the English looked at Africans as different and inferior so English laws did not apply to them. This racial superiority led to the bondage of 10 to 12 million Africans and the largest migration of people in world history. The reading by Olaudah Equiano‚ an African slave who retold his horrific experience with the middle passage and life as a slave‚ really touches on just how bad these
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responsible for the laws that rule them. Through the reading‚ Paine is trying to convince the people that a government is a profitable and necessary thing. Thomas Paine’s The American Crisis can also be thought of as a protest literature. Olaudah Equiano was a slave that had been one since age 11. When he got to the age of 21 his owner allowed him to buy himself off of slavery‚ and he is telling me in this story about how he felt about being a slave was very horrible for example he said that when
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Mullen’s exposition offers a delicate update‚ possibly a remedial‚ to crafted by Gates and other people who center‚ in Mullen’s estimation‚ too deliberately on the oral methods of black artistic articulation. Mullen’s point is that‚ "any hypothesis of African-American writing that benefits a discourse-based poetics‚ or the figure of speech of orality‚ to the rejection of all the writerlier messages will cost us some impoverishment of the custom". Mullen needs to rectify the "Eurocentric supposition"
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[us] or make [us] afraid” (Taper). Taper definition of freedom was probably desired by all those who were denied it. Many slaves attempted to escape but only a couple where able to tell their stories‚ while others were dragged back to slavery. Both Equiano and Taper would have desired the same type of freedom to all their fellow brothers to live their life how it was meant to
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I. GEOGRAPHIC AND TOPOGRAPHIC PROFILE OF AFRICA A. Location 1. Africa is the world’s second largest continent with an area of 30‚ 368‚ 609 km2 including adjacent islands. Most of its island is plateau. 2. The continent of Africa is centrally located on the earth’s surface and lies between the Atlantic Ocean in the West and the Indian Ocean in the East. 3. Africa has five distinct regions. The main regions are North Africa‚ West Africa‚ East Africa‚ Central Africa and South Africa. B. Topography
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