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The African writer has had to confront the problem of expressing a modern African reality through languages inherited from colonial history.

— Abiola Irele

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The problem of studying African literature is to see whether the traditional methods of literary analysis developed within Western culture are appropriate to African literature.

African literature has served both as a direct and objective representation of our modern experience as well as a symbolization of the states of mind induced by that experience.

An important component of this relationship is the question of language, that is, of the modes of perception and of representation that govern the master/slave dialectic.

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