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accessible to less that 1 percent of the Nigerian people. He considers Afro-European literature “merely a minor appendage in the mainstream of European literature” (Wali 14). Wali argues that it is the African languages that are in crying need of development, not the overworked French and English.
Their work belongs to an Afro-European literary tradition which is likely to last for as long as Africa is under the rule of European capital in a neo-colonial set-up. So Afro-European literature can be defined as literature written by Africans in European languages in the era of imperialism.
In the wake of African independence and the ongoing debate on the language question, Ngugi wa Thiong'o has emerged as a leading advocate of indigenous languages in African literature.
reference “African literature” subsumes for him an altogether different reality. In Ngugi, African literature in English is a serious contradiction in terms; if anything the writer suggests the lexicon “Afro-European” (Ngugi, 1998: 57) to label that body of works written in European languages such as English, French and Portuguese.
In retrospect that literature characterised by Ngugi as Afro-European – the literature written by Africans in European languages – will come to be seen as part and parcel of the uneasy period between colonialism and full independence, a period equally reflected in the continent’s political instability as it attempts to find its feet.
For An Afro-African Literature. In a recent talk at the Africa Centre in London, Ngugi Wa Thiong'o called strongly for an Afro-African literature, a literature that would be expressed in African languages (1). He contended that to write in European languages was to be party to.
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Jan 1, 2001 · Ngugi wa Thiong'o delineates a minor tradition (praising its great talents such as Achebe, Armah etc and works) of Afro-European literature, which he says will last as long as neo-colonial rule. Since writing in Gikuyu he has been asked why he chose to do so by all kinds of people.
