This document provides information about African literature and two prominent African authors, Chinua Achebe and Wole Soyinka. It discusses Achebe's influential novel Things Fall Apart and other works that captured Nigerian society between traditions and changing modern influences. It also summarizes Soyinka's background and play A Dance of the Forests, which drew from Yoruba beliefs and allegorized modern Nigerian society.

1. AFRICAN
LITERATUR
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PREPARED BY: Lanutan, Cristina D.

2. African Literature
- The literary works of african
writers in english are part of the
african literature.
- Also to those works by africans
in English, French, and other
European languages.

3. AFRICAN LITERATURE
AUTHORS
Chinua Achebe Wole Soyinka

4.  Chinua Achebe is an
accomplished writer, teacher,
and novelist of Nigerian
origins.
 Also Known For : Educator,
Novelist, Publisher
 Birth Place : Ogidi, Anambra,
Nigeria
 Died On : March 21, 2013.
 Was born on November 16,
1930.
 The Father of Modern African
Writing.

5. Chinua Achebe Works
Things fall apart
The African Trilogy
No Longer at Ease
Arrow of God

6.  Originally written in English and
published in 1958.
 Though mostly fictional, Nigerian
author Chinua Achebe claims that the
book documents Africa’s spiritual
history.
 The first novel, Things Fall Apart,
details the period leading up to
"pacification," the moment when
British colonizers violently took control
of southern Nigeria.
 portraying the traditions and beliefs of
Nigerian Igbo culture and engaging
with the narrative of European
colonialism in Africa, Things Fall Apart
uses one man’s story to speak for
many.

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 The African Trilogy captures a society
caught between its traditional roots
and the demands of a rapidly
changing world.

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 Published in 1960, the year of
Nigeria's independence.
 No Longer At Ease is the second
novel in Chinua Achebe's trilogy that
explores Nigeria's history through
fiction.
 One of Chinua Achebe's main socio-
political criticisms in No Longer At
Ease is that of corruption in Nigeria.
 From the moment the book begins
the main character, Obi Okonkwo, is
confronted with the issue of bribery.

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 Published in 1964.
 Arrow of God is the third novel in
Chinua Achebe's trilogy that
explores Nigeria's history through
fiction.
 Arrow of God is set in rural Nigeria
during the 1920s in a southern part
of the country where the Igbo
people reside.
 The novel begins with a war
between two neighboring regions
of rural Igboland: Umuaro and
Okperi.

10. Wole Soyinka
 Fullname Akinwande
Oluwole Soyinka.
 (born July 13, 1934,
Abeokuta, Nigeria).
 Soyinka was the first black
African to be awarded the
Nobel Prize for Literature in
1986.
 He sometimes wrote of
modern West Africa in a
satirical style, but his serious
intent and his belief in the
evils inherent in the exercise
of power usually was evident
in his work as well.

11.  Published December 31, 1966.
 This drama was first
performed as part of the
Nigerian Independence
Celebrations.
 A Dance of the Forests,
widely considered one of the
most challenging of his plays
to interpret, is inspired by
Yoruba belief systems and is
an allegory for modern
Nigerian society.
 The plays opens as two
characters, the Dead Man and
Dead Woman, emerge from
their burial places in the earth
to come back to life in the
middle of a forest.