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Historical perspective. If African culture depends on community and social setting, it can be said that it "grows out of tradition and keeps tradition alive". [1] . Present-day spoken-word and performance poetry can be viewed as "logical evolutions" of the ancient indigenous oral traditions.
Poetry has a long and rich tradition in Africa, with a diversity of styles, themes, and forms that reflect the continent’s linguistic, cultural, and historical diversity. African poetry has been shaped by a range of factors, including oral traditions, colonialism, nationalism, and modernism.
Diction. Proverbs. Figures Of Speech: Understanding African Poetry And Its Origins. Before colonialism, African poetry was mostly in oral form, spoken in the languages of the people which created a mutual understanding between the audience and the orator. Oral poetry was usually done with vigorousity, gestures and emotions.
While poetry might be universal, each culture has a different understanding of what poetry is. Many African languages originally lack a cover term for “poetry” or “literature”, but rather refer to specific genres.
African literature is the body of traditional oral and written literatures in Afro-Asiatic and African languages together with works written by Africans in European languages. Traditional written literature is most characteristic of those sub-Saharan cultures that have participated in the cultures of the Mediterranean.
The Portal is a resource for the study of the history of African Poetry providing access to biographical information, artifacts, news, video recording, images and documents related to African poetry from antiquity to the present.
In Africa, poetry has a history dating back to prehistorical times with the creation of hunting poetry, and panegyric and elegiac court poetry were developed extensively throughout the history of the empires of the Nile, Niger, and Volta river valleys.
