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Title:Social contexting in the teaching of African literature
Authors:Mnthali, Felix
Ugundipe-Leslie, Omolara
Year:1982
Periodical:Okike: an African Journal of New Writing
Issue:20
Pages:82-90
Language:English
Geographic term:Subsaharan Africa
Subjects:higher education
literature
Abstract:Certain experiences which indicate that literature syllabuses in African universities could benefit from possibilities of depth, immediacy and context are discussed. The authors present a specimen syllabus for a three-year literature programme, based on four fundamental objectives: cultivating the students' understanding of the oral and written literature of Africa; cultivating an understanding of the oral and written literature of the peoples of African descent in the Americas and the west Indies; creating awareness of other people who have suffered or undergone in more recent times the traumas experienced by Africans in the past; and developing a knowledge of other great writers provided their message and form lead to a clearer understanding of both African literature and the concrete African historical moment of the pre sent. The authors also stress the importance of knowing the historical and social context of a work in order to be able to understand it.
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