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AFST 19901. INTRODUCTION TO AFRICAN LITERATURE. As an introduction to African literature, this course will explore the social, cultural, and political issues of the continent. Throughout the semester, we will see that many African problems arise in the tensions between surviving pre-colonial traditions and new traditions that have been formed during and in the aftermath of colonialism. African writers are concerned to portray these tensions as they are lived out in the lives of individuals and groups. As we are introduced to Africa and its literature (and film), then, we will see in outline the problems and aspirations, the fears and the hopes, the legacies and the setbacks, the strengths and weaknesses, that define the peculiar experiences of a continent said to be in transition. We will also discuss important themes in Africana studies such as class, gender, religion, tradition, modernity, colonization, decolonization, nation and nationalism, and politics, et c. in pre-colonial, colonial, and postcolonial