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FREN 369 — African Literature & Culture

BA BA French and Francophone Studies · Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology

The course examines aspects of the negritude movements that search for African cultural roots. At the dawn of awareness African writers seek to whitewash everything black while discrediting everything white. Senghor, Birago Diop, Camera Laye etc fight for cultural roots. Other themes to be examined are rural – urban migration, conflict of generation, individual versus society, social change etc.

Credits
2
Level
Level 300

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