Voices of Africa 🔥
Africa authors are not well known in North American and European countries.
All three authors discussed in the passage spoke out despite personal danger.
Many of these author's works deal with cultural customs and history.
Some works express their criticism of colonialism.
Chiuna Achebe
He is a Nigerian novelist and poet.
He has written six novels, dozen of essays and commentaries, collections of short stories and poems, and even children's books.
He is most acclaimed novel Things Fall Apart. It has sold ten million copies and has been translated into fifty languages
The work is representative of his recurring themes of African politics and the effects of colonialism.
Wole Soyinka
He from Nigeria and he is the country's premier playwright.
The first African to receive the Nobel Prize in Literature.
He was imprisoned for nearly two years for trying to negotiate a peace agreement between two warring factions in the Nigerian Civil War.
Soyinka's best-known play is Dealth and the King's Horsemen like Things Fall Apart.
Ngugi wa Thiong'o
He was born in Kenya in 1938.
He was affects by Mau Mau Reblion. His mother was tortured and his stepbrother killed in the struggle.
Thiong'o literary career began with his first novel, Weep Not, Child.
Thiong'o has also been a victim of political persecution.
His play I Will Marry When I Want was highly critical of what has been termed neo-colonialism.
Thiong'o briefly returned to Kenya in 2004, he was again victimized when he and his wife were physically assaulted in their apartment
The works of these authors are rich in historical facts, cultural insight, and political conviction.
Their willingness to speak out in spite of personal danger is a testament to their vision, their commitment to raise awareness of cultural ideals, and their desire to bring about social change.