10 POINTS ON AFRICAN LITERATURE

 

1.    Elechi Amandi’s first novel was The concubine.

2.    The African image (1962) is written by Ezekiel Mphahlele.

3.    Baako is a character in the novel Fragments (1971) by Ayi Kwei Armah

4.    Jacob is the central character in the novel The slave by  Issac Bashevis Singer

5.    The Palm-Wine Drinkard (1952) is a novel by Amos Tutuola

6.    DEcoLonising the Mind (1986) is written by  Ngugi Wa Thiong’O

7.    Mariama Ba’s So Long a Letter is an Epistolary Novel.

8.    Long Walk to Freedom  is an autobiographical work written by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela

9.    The house gun by Nadine Gordimer is post-apartheid novel.

10.   Flora Nwapa’s Efuru was the first novel to be published by a woman writer in Nigeria.