2nd ppt Afro-Asian

• Africa is derived from the Phoenecian word 'Aphridi', meaning tribe of northern Africa.
• The Greek word 'Aphrike' means without cold, which is later used to refer to Africa.
• The Latin word 'Aprica' means sunny, which is later used to refer to Africa.
• Orature is a term coined by Pio Zirimu, a Ugandan scholar, to refer to African literature.
• Orature includes stories, dramas, riddles, histories, myths, songs, proverbs, and other forms to educate and entertain children and remind whole communities of their ancestors' heroic deeds, their past, and the precedents for their customs and traditions.
• Orature is essential to oral literature, which is characterized by a concern for presentation and oratory call-response technique.
• A griot (praise singer) will accompany a narrative with music.
• Prose in African literature can be mythological or historical, written or spoken language.
• David Diop, a Negritude poet, lived much of his life in France but also spent significant time in West Africa, where he was a strong supporter of the movement for independence from French colonial rule.
• The poem "Africa" by David Diop is a dramatic monologue, with the speaker addressing Africa as if it were a person.
• The poem "Africa" by David Diop explores themes of identity, awareness, oppression, humiliation, colonialism, and optimism.
• The tone of the poem "Africa" by David Diop is joyful, nostalgic, and optimistic.
• The poem "Africa" by David Diop uses poetic devices such as rhetorical question, symbolism, imagery, personification, alliteration, reiteration, exaggeration, anaphora, and epiphora.
• The poem "Africa" by David Diop symbolizes black blood as a representation of African identity.