Author:Bosange, Nkaongami JosueDate:2008This thesis examines themes, characters in the oral tales one of the tribes of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), the NKUNDO-MONGO tribe. Catholic priests have collected these tales during and after the colonization period. We have used ...Read more
Author:Mwepu, Patrick KabeyaDate:2001Henri Lopes, from Congo Brazzaville, is one of the most fully rounded writers in the field of modern African literature. This research is concerned with an analysis of the way in which the ideology, which he has embraced, has permeated all ...Read more
Author:Vrancken, Maria do Céu OliveiraDate:2008Of the eighteen films produced by the Senegalese Ousmane Sembène, five are adaptations of his novels and novellas. In the case of Guelwaar, his sixth and last adaptation, it is the novel which he adapted to the film of the same name. Sembène, ...Read more
Author:Kayembe Kabemba, EmmanuelDate:2011Cette étude, qui relève du domaine des littératures francophones, porte, comme l’indique son titre, sur « l’oeuvre de Pius Ngandu Nkashama dans le champ littéraire africain ».Read more
Author:Djiffack, AndreDate:1998Mongo Beti, whose real name is Alexander Siyidi Awala, was only 22 years old when he developed his own concept of "freedom". His ideas became public by way of his contribution to the African journal Présence Africaine, published in Paris in ...Read more
Author:Somers, ShehnazDate:1993This thesis examines the figure of the Trickster In the traditional literature of the Indian Ocean islands of the Seychelles, Mauritius and Reunion. Originating from a unique blend of cultures, the popular literature of these islands lend ...Read more
Author:Msusa, NaomiDate:2010Malawian theatre, like most theatre in the southern region of Africa, is composed of two distinct forms; oral traditional theatre mostly comprising of masks, music and dance, as well as popular theatre which seeks to follow the definition of ...Read more
Author:Wynchank, AnnyDate:1982The adolescents in Gide's writings evolve in a manner parallel to that of their author and the genres he uses. His first work the lyrical Cahiers d'Andre Walter, is the diary of an introspective puritanical romantic youth. It is a self-centered ...Read more
Author:Kayumba, Viviane BanzaDate:2013My motivation to study Dany Laferrière's novels is inspired by the fact that the majority of studies or analyses made on works from francophone former colonies, are focused on cultural aspects and deal with questions of nationality or social ...Read more
Author:Marsh, JanetDate:1997Monnew, the second novel of Ahmadou Kourouma, published in 1990, relates the history of a fictitious Malinke kingdom, Soba, in the north-west Ivory Coast, from pre-colonial times in the late ·nineteenth century to the beginnings of the ...Read more