African Literature

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• What central historical process most directly disrupts Okonkwo's community in Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart?
• What was the primary aim of the Négritude movement in African and Caribbean writing?
• Which distinction did Wole Soyinka receive in 1986?
• In many African literary traditions, what is a major function of oral storytelling?
• Match each African author with the work they wrote.
• Match each African literary figure with the country most closely associated with their literary career.
• Match each novel with its principal thematic focus.
• Match each term with its meaning in the study of African literature.