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African Writing Today
''African Writing Today'' is an anthology of African_literature#Postcolonial_African_literature, postcolonial African literature, mostly short stories and a few poems, edited by South African writer, poet, and critic Es'kia Mphahlele. The anthology was published in London by Penguin Books in 1967. Much of the literature in the anthology is from West and Southern Africa. Starting in the mid-1950s, international criticism of South Africa's apartheid regime brought more attention to race relations in the country, and as a result publishing opportunities particularly in England increased; ''African Writing Today'' was one of a number of anthologies that proved an outlet for South African writers. The anthology features poetry, essays, short stories and excerpts from novels, drama and memoir, and among the writers included are Chinua Achebe, Christina Ama Ata Aidoo, George Awoonor-Williams, José Craveirinha, Birago Diop, David Diop, Mbella Sonne Dipoko, Marcelino dos Santos, Sarif Ea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Es'kia Mphahlele
Es'kia Mphahlele (17 December 1919 – 27 October 2008) was a South African writer, educationist, artist and activist celebrated as the Father of African Humanism and one of the founding figures of modern African literature. He was given the name Ezekiel Mphahlele at birth but changed his name to Es'kia in 1977. His journey from a childhood in the slums of Pretoria to a literary icon was an odyssey both intellectually and politically. As a writer, he brought his own experiences in and outside South Africa to bear on his short stories, fiction, autobiography and history, developing the concept of African humanism. He skilfully evoked the black experience under apartheid in ''Down Second Avenue'' (1959). It recounted his struggle to get an education and the setbacks he experienced in his teaching career. Mphahlele wrote two autobiographies, more than 30 short stories, two verse plays and a number of poems. He is deemed as the "Dean of African Letters". He was the recipient of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Camara Laye
Camara Laye (January 1, 1928 – February 4, 1980) was a writer from Guinea. He was the author of '' The African Child'' (''L'Enfant noir''), a novel based loosely on his own childhood, and ''The Radiance of the King'' (''Le Regard du roi''). Both novels are among the earliest major works in Francophone African literature. Camara Laye later worked for the government of newly independent Guinea, but went into voluntary exile over political issues. Early life Camara Laye was born in Kouroussa, a town in what was then the colony of French Guinea. His family were Malinke (a Mandé-speaking ethnicity), and he was born into a system where he had to follow his forefathers footsteps who traditionally worked as blacksmiths and goldsmiths. His mother was from the village of Tindican, and his immediate childhood surroundings were not predominantly influenced by French culture. He attended both Quranic and French elementary schools in Kouroussa. At the age of 15 he went to Conakry, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ousmane Socé
Ousmane is a given name or surname common in West Africa. It is derived from the Arabic name Uthman through Osman. People named Ousmane include: * Mahamane Ousmane (born 1950), Nigerien political figure * Ousmane Bangoura (born 1979), Guinean football midfielder * Ousmane Cisse (born 1982), Malian professional basketball player * Ousmane Dabo (born 1977), French football midfielder * Ousmane Dembélé (born 1997), French footballer * Ousmane Issoufi Maïga (born 1945), prime minister of Mali * Ousmane N'Gom Camara (born 1975), Guinean football player * Ousmane Niang (born 1980), Senegalese sprinter * Ousmane Sanou (born 1978), Burkinabé football player * Ousmane Sembène (1923-2007), Senegalese film director, producer and writer * Ousmane Socé (1911-1974), writer, politician, and one of the first Senegalese novelists * Ousmane Sy (born 1949), Malian politician * Ousmane Tanor Dieng (born 1948), President of the parliamentary group of the Socialist Party of Senegal * Ousmane Toun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Léopold Sédar Senghor
Léopold Sédar Senghor (; ; 9 October 1906 – 20 December 2001) was a Senegalese poet, politician and cultural theorist who was the first president of Senegal (1960–80). Ideologically an African socialist, he was the major theoretician of Négritude. Senghor was a proponent of African culture, black identity and African empowerment within the framework of French-African ties. He advocated for the extension of full civil and political rights for France's African territories while arguing that French Africans would be better off within a federal French structure than as independent nation-states. Senghor became the first President of independent Senegal. He fell out with his long-standing associate Mamadou Dia who was Prime Minister of Senegal, arresting him on suspicion of fomenting a coup and imprisoning him for 12 years. Senghor established an authoritarian single-party state in Senegal where all rival political parties were prohibited. Senghor was also the founder of t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Rive
Richard Moore Rive (1 March 1931 – 4 June 1989) was a South African writer and academic, who was from Cape Town. Biography Rive was born on 1 March 1931 in Caledon Street in the working-class Coloured residential area District Six of Cape Town.Geoffrey V. Davis''Voices of Justice and Reason'' Editions Rodopi, 2003, pp. 95-100. His father was African, and his mother was Coloured."Richard (Moore) Rive" ''Dictionary of Literary Biography''. Rive was given the latter classification under . Rive went to St Mark's Primary School and Trafalgar High School, [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Pliya
Jean Pliya (July 21, 1931 – May 14, 2015) was a Beninese playwright and short story writer. Life Born in what was then Dahomey, Pliya was educated at the University of Dakar and then the University of Toulouse The University of Toulouse (french: Université de Toulouse) was a university in the French city of Toulouse that was established by papal bull in 1229, making it one of the earliest universities to emerge in Europe. Suppressed during the Frenc .... He graduated from the second in 1957 and in 1959 returned to his homeland to teach. He went on to hold ministerial positions in the Benin government. Work His work often considers colonial history and issues of values. He has also attempted to translate the Fon people's tales for a French speaking audience. Publications * ''L'Arbre fétiche'', recueil de nouvelles (L'Arbre fétiche, La Voiture rouge, L'homme qui avait tout donné, le Gardien de nuit), Yaoundé, Éditions CLE, 1971 * ''Kondo le requin'', consacré ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lenrie Peters
Lenrie Leopold Wilfred Peters (1 September 1932 – 28 May 2009) was a Gambian surgeon, novelist, poet and educationist. Biography Peters was born in 1931 in Bathurst (now Banjul) in The Gambia. His parents were Lenrie Ernest Ingram Peters and Kezia Rosemary. Lenrie Sr. was a Sierra Leone Creole of West Indian or black American origin. Kezia Rosemary was a Gambian Creole of Sierra Leonean Creole origin. Lenrie Jr. grew up in Bathurst and moved to Sierra Leone in 1949, where he was educated at the Prince of Wales School (Freetown, Sierra Leone), Prince of Wales School, Freetown, gaining his Higher School Certificate in science subjects. In 1952 he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, to read Natural Sciences, graduating with a BSc degree in 1956; from 1956 to 1959 he worked and studied at University College Hospital, London, and 1959 was awarded a Medical and Surgery diploma from Cambridge. Peters worked for the BBC from 1955 to 1968, on their Africa programmes. While at Cambri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ferdinand Oyono
Ferdinand Léopold Oyono (14 September 1929 – 10 June 2010 ''Jeune Afrique'', 10 June 2010 .) was a diplomat, politician and author from . His literary work is recognised for a sense of irony that reveals how easily people can be fooled. Writing in French in the 1950s, Oyono had only a brief literary career, but his anti-colonialist novels are considered classics of 20th century African literature; his first novel, ''Une vie de boy''—published in 1956 and later translated as '' [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Grace Ogot
Grace Emily Ogot (née Akinyi; 15 May 1930 – 18 March 2015) was a Kenyan author, nurse, journalist, politician and diplomat. Together with Charity Waciuma she was the first Anglophone female Kenyan writer to be published.Mike Kuria, ed. ''Talking Gender: Conversations with Kenyan Women Writers'', 2003. PJ-Kenya, p. 71. She was one of the first Kenyan members of parliament and she became an assistant minister.Kenyan Writer Grace Ogor Dies , 18 March 2015, The Insider.org, Retrieved 14 May 2016 Biography Ogot was born Grace Emily Akinyi to a Christian family on 15 May 1930Peter Ngangi Nguli[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Onuora Nzekwu
Onuora Nzekwu () also known as Joseph Onuora Nzekwu (19 February 1928 – 21 April 2017) was a Nigerian professor, writer and editor from the Igbo people. He is author of the 1961 novel '' Wand of Noble Wood'' and the 1963 novel '' Eze Goes to School'' which was among the African Writers Series. Biography Nzekwu was born in Kafanchan, Kaduna State, to Mr. Obiese Nzekwu and Mrs. Mary Ogugua Nzekwu (née Aghadiuno) of Onitsha in Anambra State. Bivne's Space, 3 March 2012. In January 1956, Nzekwu joined the Federal Civil Service and wo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lewis Nkosi
Lewis Nkosi (5 December 1936 – 5 September 2010) was a South African people, South African writer, who spent 30 years in exile as a consequence of restrictions placed on him and his writing by the Suppression of Communism Act and the Publications and Entertainment Act passed in the 1950s and 1960s. A multifaceted personality, he attempted multiple genre for his writing, including literary criticism, poetry, drama, novels, short stories, essays, as well as journalism. Early life Nkosi was born in a traditional Zulu people, Zulu family in a place called Embo in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. He attended local schools, before enrolling at M. L. Sultan Technical College in Durban."Lewis Nkosi" South African History Online. Later life Nkosi in his early twenties began working as a journalist, first in Durban, joini ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abioseh Nicol
Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol or pen named Abioseh Nicol (14 September 1924 – 20 September 1994) was a Sierra Leone Creole academic, diplomat, physician, writer and poet. He was able to secure degrees in the arts, science and commercial disciplines and he contributed to science, history, and literature. Nicol was the first African to graduate with first class honours from the University of Cambridge and he was also the first African elected as a fellow of a college of Cambridge University. Davidson Nicol also contributed to medical science when he was the first to analyse the breakdown of insulin in the human body, a discovery which was a breakthrough for the treatment of diabetes. Early life Nicol was born as Davidson Sylvester Hector Willoughby Nicol on 14 September 1924 in Bathurst, Sierra Leone, to Jonothan Josibiah Nicol. He taught at the Prince of Wales School in Freetown, the capital city of Sierra Leone, and studied on a scholarship at Christ's Colleg ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
