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AWhat is Afro Asian literature?

Afro-Asian literature is the

literature from whole Africa and
Asia.these literature include
stories, myths and others.Afro-
Asian Literature is a term for
novels or writing such as poems
written by people from mixed
African-Arab ethnicity, or
African-Asian ethnicity. In
modern times, a a part of world
literature, Afro-Asian literature is
a separate segment of writing of
experiences in African and Asia
to further cultural understanding
and world peace. Afro-Asian
literature is the literature from
whole Africa and Asia. These
literature include stories, myths
and others.fro-Asian
Literature
The History of Afro-Asian Literature?

African literature refers to literature of and from

Africa . As George Joseph notes onthe first page of his
chapter on African literature in Understanding
Contemporary Africa, while the European perception of
literature generally refers to written letters, the African
concept includes oral literature. As George Joseph
continues, while European views of literature often
stressed a separation of art and content, African awareness
is inclusive: "Literature" can also imply an artistic use of
words for the sake of art alone. Traditionally, Africans do
not radically separate art from teaching. Rather than write
or sing for beauty in itself,African writers, taking their cue
from oral literature, use beautyto help communicate
important truths and information to society.Indeed, an
object is considered beautiful because of the truths it
reveals and the communities it helps to build.
 African
Literature

A brief background and history of African literature

Africa has a long and complex literary history.
Indeed, to suggest that one historical account can
represent all of the literatures, across time, from all
of the regions of Africa is misleading. Deciding when
African literature first appears, or when the
tradition begins, are questions that are ultimately
unanswerable, and determining which literary forms
originate in Africa and which are borrowed from
elsewhere are issues over which literary critics
continue to debate. Nevertheless, scholars of
African literatures have put forth a general historical
overview that allows readers, listeners, and students
to gain a sense of the literary history of Africa.
Oral Literatures

Oral literatures have flourished in Africa for many

centuries and take a variety of forms including, in
addition to the folk tales found in this lesson, myths,
epics, funeral dirges, praise poems, and proverbs.
Myths, according to Oyekan Owomoyela, usually
“explain the interrelationships of all things that exist,
and provide for the group and its members a necessary
sense of their place in relation to their environment
and the forces that order events on earth”.. Epics are
elaborate literary forms, usually performed only by
experts on special occasions.
Commonly Known Oral Literature

Most well known of the African oral forms is

Proverbs -
probably the proverb, a short witty or ironic
statement, metaphorical in its formulation, that aims
to communicate a response to a particular situation,
to offer advice, or to be persuasive. The proverb is
often employed as a rhetorical device, presenting its
speaker as the holder of cultural knowledge or
authority. Yet, as much as the proverb looks back to
an African culture as its origin and source of authority,
it creates that African culture each time it is spoken
and used to make sense of immediate problems and
occasions.
An African Literary Tradition

The written literatures, novels, plays, and poems in the

1950s and 60s have been described as literatures of
testimony. (See Kenneth W. Harrow’s Thresholds of
Change in African Literature, Portsmouth and London:
Heinemann and James Curry, 1994.) Novels such as Ngugi
wa Thiong’o’s A Grain of Wheat, Wole Soyinka’s The
Interpreters, Chinua Achebe’s Things Fall Apart, and Flora
Nwapa’s Efuru are a few of the novels that might be
described as literatures of testimony. These works, in part,
attempt to respond to derogatory representations of, and
myths about, African culture. Frequently written in the
first person, literatures of testimony are concerned with
representing African reality and valorizing African culture.
Women and African Literature

African women, although receiving less notice from

scholars and historians, have been producing literature
alongside African men. Women oral artists and
performers continue to create oral literatures and have
written a wide array of works that have been well
received by readers and teachers of African literature.
Speech Writing

The reasons for writing are to

inform, to explain or to persuade.
In a speech, typically the main
purpose is to persuade the
listener/reader to take up and
support your views. What can
differentiate a speech from a
normal essay is that your audience
can be from all sorts of
backgrounds.
Speech Writing

Define as an art of
conveying a message to your
audience. Either through
oral communication or
through other means, such
as powerpoint slides,
speech writing has the
same function as normal
writing.
Why Study Speech Writing?

Speech writing is useful for presentations

or other formal events that require a bit or
other verbal delivery. It is useful to learn
speech writing in order to become a more
proficient, concise speaker. Speech writing
will help you to develop a "flow"
(marketing term) and also keep yourself
on-time and in rhythm, making for a more
streamlined presentation. Speech writing is
highly distinct from literary or formal
writing. Speech writing is meant to be
performed, and thus, you write as you
would speak.