Introduction to Afro-Asian Literature

1. WHO IS CHINUA ACHEBE?

• the feminist writer

• the rising fiction writer ​

• the forefather of contemporary African writers

• the rebel writer ​

2. WHAT DOES “ASIA” MEAN?

WHAT ARE THE THREE AFRICAN NORMS

• SENSE OF COMMUNITY

• SENSE OF HOSPITALITY

• SENSE OF ENTITLEMENT

• SENSE OF GOOD HUMAN RELATIONS

WHAT ARE THE 2 AIMS OF AFRICAN’S ORAL LITERATURE?

• To gain a deep understanding of a specific organization or event.

• To educate and entertain children.

• to accelerate the economic growth, social progress and cultural development.

• To remind people about their past, heroic deeds, ancestry and culture.

WHO IS THE AFRICA’S RISING FICTION WRITER?

• CHINUA ACHEBE

• LOUNÈS MATOUB

• LEILA ABOULELA

• CHIMAMANDA NGOZI ADICHIE

AFRICAN LANGUAGES ARE considered _____________ which means pitch level determines meaning.

• pitch language

• tone language

• conventional language

• secular language

Which does NOT explain Afro-Asian Literature?

• Literary works were handed by mouth from generation to generation to entertain, educate and remind people about their past, heroic deeds, ancestry and culture.

• It is a term for writing, written by people from mixed African-Arab ethnicity, or African-Asian ethnicity. ​

• It refers to the literary output of the various countries and cultures in Africa and Asia.

• It is a term for writing, written by people from mixed African-Islam ethnicity, or Eastern-Asian ethnicity. ​

• This includes Asian and African oral traditions and from the first to the contemporary written and/or published prose and poetry.​

What African norm is explained below:

“Go the way many people go; if you go alone, you will have reason to lament.”

• SENSE OF COMMUNITY

• SENSE OF GOOD HUMAN RELATIONS

• SENSE OF HOSPITALITY

What African norm is explained below:

The art of dialogue and conversation is a cherished value in African human.

• SENSE OF COMMUNITY

• SENSE OF GOOD HUMAN RELATIONS

• SENSE OF HOSPITALITY

What is Chinua Achebe's first and most well-known fiction book?

• Half Of A Yellow Sun

• The Translator

• Things Fall Apart

• Le Rebel