African Literature
This is a list of the subcollections within the World Literature Collection at the Community Virtual LIbrary on Info Island.
This list contains links to resources on literature groups by language, country, ethnic group, etc.
GENERAL RESOURCES
A treasury of African folklore / by Harold Courlander [1975] {Internet Arcive]
African Literature (goodbooks.com)
African Literature on the Internet (Columbia University)
African Literature (Written Literature)
Teaching African Literature (A Webb, A Clements, A Camara - Univ. of Michigan)
Literature & Language (Boston Univ.ersity African Studies Center)
Afrikaans (South Africa and Namibia)
Audio Books in Afrikaans (librivox.org)
Geskiedenis van die Afrikaanse literatuur
Books By Language (Internet Archive)
Afrikaans Literature and Language (African Studies Centre)
Aflrikaans Literature (HathiTrust Digital Library)
Afrikaans Books (goodreads.com)
Akan (Ghana and Ivory Coast)
Aspects of Akan Oral Literature in the Media / by Kofi Kofi Agyekum
Akan Kasadwini (Akan Oral Literature) / by K. Agyekum (Abstract)
Akan-Ashanti folk-tales / by Rattray, R. S. 1930 (Internet Archive)
Akan of Ghana, their ancient beliefs / by Eva L.R. Meyerowitz (Internet Archive)
Spider and the Sky God : an Akan legend / by D.M Chocolate & D Alberts (Internet Archive)
Anansi the Spider: Trickster or Teacher? (folklorethursday.com)
Amharic (Ethiopia)
Wikipedia (Ethiopian Literatue)
Amharic Books (goodreads .com)
Ethiopia Books (goodreads.com)
Amharic Literature (HathiTrust Digital Library)
Selected Annotated Bibliography on Amharic / Gover Hudson (WayBack Machine)
Berber (Morocco, Algeria)
Shilha literature (Wikipedia)
Moorish literature [1901] (Internet Archive)
Berber Books (goodreads.com)
Coptic (Egypt)
Archaeological Atlas of Coptic LIterature (paths.com)
Copitic Literature / by Tito Orlandi
Development of Coptic Literature (Eternal Egypt)
Overview of and introduction to Coptic literature / by Roger Pearse [2010]
Alin Suciu's Coptic Literature and Manuscripts (FaceBook)
Fulani/Fula/Fulah (West Africa)
Fulani Books (goodreads.com)
Fula Language/Culture Acquisitions at Columbia University (Bibliography)
Who Are the Fulani People & Their Origins? (modernghana.com)
Hausa (West Africa)
Hausa Books (goodreads.com)
Hausa Language/Culture Acquisitions at Columbia University (Bibliography)
Hausa Folk-Lore / by Maalam Shaihua [1913]
Hausa Literature (HathiTrust Digital Library)
Igbo (Nigeria)
Igbo Culture (Wikipedia)
Malagasy (Madagascar)
Knowing the Unknowable: Writing from Madagascar / by A.M Charette
Madagascar (Section on literature - more resources in side menu)
Malagasy Books (Includes books about Madagascar) (goodreads.com)
Oromo (Ethiopia
Oromo People (Wikipedia)
Oromo Folklore and Literature (FaceBook)
Analysis of Guji Oromo Folktales: Function in Focus / by Gumi Boru
Oromo Traditional Beliefs, Cultures & Customs
Afan Oromo Books (goodreads.com)
Somali (Somalia, Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya)
Somali Books (goodreads.com)
Somali Literature (African Studies Centre)
The Best Way to Understand Somalia is to Read Its Literature / by Michael Barron
Somali Literature (bookshybooks.com)
Somali Folktales (Lyndale Community School)
Swahili (East Africa)
Swahili Language/Culture Acquisitions at Columbia University (Bibliography)
Swahili Books (goodreads.com)
Swahili Literature Through the Centuries (University of Kansasa)
Swahili Literature (HathiTrust Digital Library)
Swahili Oral Traditions / by Jan Knappert
Zanzibar Tales / by George W. Bateman [1901]
Poems from Kenya: gnomic verses in Swahili / by Nassir, Ahmad
Yoruba (Nigeria, Benin, Togo)
Myths of Ífè / by John Wyndham [1921]
Yoruba Books (goodreads.com)
The Images of Women in Yoruba Folktales / by Adeyinka Wulemat Olarinmoye
Zulu (South Africa)
Zulu Language/Culture Acquisitions at Columbia University (Bibliography)
Zulu Books (goodreads.com)
Tricksters and trickery in Zulu folktales / by Noverino Noemio Canonici
Zulu (Countries and Their Cultures)
South African Language Literatures / by Ntongela Masilela