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  • African Literature in African Languages
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  • Introduction. African Literature in African Languages: Orality and the Burden of Modernity
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  • Pictures of Materialism in the Benin Ecological Worldview: Eco-Critical Poems of Osemwengie Ero
  • The Swahili Mtapta: Exploring Translation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise​
  • Ikponmwosa Osemwegie’s Ọrọ Epic and Translation: The Past and Prospects of Edo Literature
  • The Panegyric of the Champion: How Wolof Wrestlers Borrowed from Female Oral Genres to Win In and Outside the Arena
  • ‘A People’s Firewood Cooks for Them’: The Contextual Prosody of Igbo Mask Poetry and Mbem Poetics
  • Reclaiming the Muted Voices of Xhosa Literature: A Personal Testament
  • LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
  • Four Poems (Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto)
  • Thee Poems (Amaka Blossom Chime)
  • Four Poems (Blessing Ezinne Okah)
  • Pulse on Martin Niemöller (Alexander Opicho)
  • Two Poems (Stephen Oladele Solanke)
  • Poem (Aisha Umar)
  • Ties that Gag (Felicia Moh)
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  • Costume as Mystico-Metaphoric Communication in Toni Duruaku’s A Matter of Identity: A Semiotic Analysis
  • Decolonizing Trauma Studies: The Recognition-Solidarity Nexus in Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them
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All Rights Reserved. Except as permitted under current legislation
no part of this work may be photocopied, stored in a retrieval system,
published, performed in public, adapted, broadcast, transmitted,
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First published 2023
James Currey
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    • ALT 41
    • African Literature in African Languages
    • Guidelines for Submissions
    • African Literature Today previous volumes
    • African Literature in African Languages
    • Copyright
    • Stop Press/Tribute
    • Notes on Contributors
    • Introduction. African Literature in African Languages: Orality and the Burden of Modernity
    • ARTICLES
    • Pictures of Materialism in the Benin Ecological Worldview: Eco-Critical Poems of Osemwengie Ero
    • The Swahili Mtapta: Exploring Translation in Abdulrazak Gurnah’s Paradise​
    • Ikponmwosa Osemwegie’s Ọrọ Epic and Translation: The Past and Prospects of Edo Literature
    • The Panegyric of the Champion: How Wolof Wrestlers Borrowed from Female Oral Genres to Win In and Outside the Arena
    • ‘A People’s Firewood Cooks for Them’: The Contextual Prosody of Igbo Mask Poetry and Mbem Poetics
    • Reclaiming the Muted Voices of Xhosa Literature: A Personal Testament
    • LITERARY SUPPLEMENT
    • Four Poems (Chinua Ezenwa-Ohaeto)
    • Thee Poems (Amaka Blossom Chime)
    • Four Poems (Blessing Ezinne Okah)
    • Pulse on Martin Niemöller (Alexander Opicho)
    • Two Poems (Stephen Oladele Solanke)
    • Poem (Aisha Umar)
    • Ties that Gag (Felicia Moh)
    • FEATURED ARTICLES
    • Costume as Mystico-Metaphoric Communication in Toni Duruaku’s A Matter of Identity: A Semiotic Analysis
    • Decolonizing Trauma Studies: The Recognition-Solidarity Nexus in Uwem Akpan’s Say You’re One of Them
    • TRIBUTE
    • Remembering Gerald Moore (22 August 1924 – 27 December 2022)
    • REVIEWS
    • Reviews

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Interrogates and explores African literature in African languages today, and the continuing interfaces between works in indigenous languages and those written in European languages or languages of colonizers.

Sixty years after the Conference of African Writers of English Expression at Makerere University, the dominance in the global canon of African literatures written in European languages over those in indigenous languages continues to be an issue. This volume of ALT re-examines this central question of African literatures to ask, 'What is the state of African literatures in African languages today?' Contributors discuss the translation of Gurnah's novel Paradise to Swahili, and Osemwegie's Ọrọ Epic to English, and Wolof wrestlers' panegyrics. They analyse Edo eco-critical poetry, and the poetics of Igbo mask poetry, and morality in early prose fiction in indigenous Nigerian languages. Other essays contribute a semiotic analysis of Duruaku's A Matter of Identity, and the decolonization of trauma in Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them. Overall, the volume paints a complex image of African cultural production in indigenous languages, especially in the ways Africa's oral performance traditions remain resilient in the face of a seemingly undiminished presence of non-African language literary traditions.
PublisherJames Currey
Print publication date Dec, 2023
Print ISBN 9781847013460
EISBN 9781805431084

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