Not Thriving: African Literature

Two sentences of description, two examples, no indexing. I'd have sent African Literature back to YKTTW myself if I knew anything about the topic. Does anyone know enough about the topic to take on rewriting it?

I'm not an expert, but I bet there's lots of movements and postcolonalism, and we might have to divide by country. South Africa and Nigeria might have the largest sections.

I'm guessing this is due to very few wiki editors having significant familiarity with the subject.

edited 20th May '12 12:25:59 PM by ThatHuman

Some African lit is School Study Literature after all. Somebody's gotta know something.

We don't need to divide anything until we have maybe >100 entries. And yes, there's bound to be a lot of Nigerian literature, given that there are more English speakers there than in the U.K. But it doesn't mean we have many Nigerian works on this wiki.

edited 20th May '12 3:32:09 PM by BrentLaabs

I added one work of African literature which the wiki has which wasn't on the list.

But I would say part of the problem is a lack of African work on the wiki—we don't even have anything by J.M. Coetzee, and he's won the Nobel Prize for literature.

I think that an index would help promote troping or we could create a project.

African literature is a continent spanning body of literature, with as much diversity as one would expect from fifty four countries, and hundreds of ethnic groups and languages. Prominent in this body of works are colonialism, inter-ethnic conflict, war, and development. This index is only for African works. For works of the African Diaspora, see Carribean Literature or Literary Works by African-American Authors

^ Is this a good description?

I made some tweaks:

African literature has as much diversity as one would expect from a body of literature which includes authors from fifty-four countries and hundreds of ethnic groups and languages. Prominent in this body of works are themes of colonialism, inter-ethnic conflict, war, and development. This index is only for African works. For works of the African Diaspora, see Caribbean Literature or Literary Works by African-American Authors.

Hmm...it's good, but I'd love to put some sort of continent spanning pun in there.

Should we do anything else to this?

Maybe we could mine The Other Wiki for stuff like more examples.

I swapped the description, but I have another problem- should we put the works of Nnedi O in A Alit? She's Nigerian American.

I would think yes.

edited 18th Jul '12 8:33:22 PM by Nocturna

I edited the page again. Mostly examples. Should I put some Egyptian literature on there?

edited 23rd Jul '12 7:53:18 AM by animeg3282

You forgot to redlink the various titles. ETA: And it turns out we have a page on Purple Hibiscus. :)

And I'm not sure about Egyptian examples. Probably, as it is Africa, even if the culture is more Arabic.

edited 23rd Jul '12 11:49:29 AM by Nocturna

I added the Cairo Trilogy. Are we done?

Probably. I'm not sure that there's really much else we can do here.

We can watch the page. I've been looking for an excuse to do some reading so I'll read and add stuff.