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African Literature Question Paper

African Literature

Course:Bachelor Of Arts (Language & Literary Studies)

Institution: Kenyatta University question papers

Exam Year:2010

KENYATTA UNIVERSITY
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS 2009/2010

INSTITUTE OF OPEN LEARNING
EXAMINATION FOR THE DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF ARTS

ALT 401:
AFRICAN LITERATURE
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DATE: MONDAY 19TH JULY 2010

TIME: 11.00 A.M. - 1.00 P.M.

INSTRUCTIONS
Answer any 3 questions. Each question carries 23 ½ marks.

1.
?There was no literature in Africa before the coming of colonization? Validate this

assertion.

2.
What in your opinion, should be the language of African Literature?

3.
Referring to any poems from Lusophone Africa done in this unit discus some of the

major themes and the experience that informs the writings.

4.
What is the response strategy of Dennis Brutus to Apartheid in his poetry?

5.
?Literature and politics are inseparable in post-colonial Africa?. Drawing

illustrations from Ayi Kwei Armah?s The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born or any

other African novel, discuss the truth in this statement.

6.
Discus the ways in which religion has influenced literature in Africa.

7.
Drawing illustrations from North African short stories, discuss the treatment of the

theme of Feminism in African prose.
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