This course aims at providing a sense of interaction between historical forces and the rise of African literature. It is an intensive study of the African novel, African Drama, both traditional and modern as well as the study of African poetry. The course is particularly geared towards the enlightenment of the student on the context and condition of this literature. It seeks to expose the student to the literature especially after colonialism, reflecting on the pre-colonial compositions, pointing to the literature that emerged out of protest against imperialism. The course therefore looks at this literature in its genuine way of addressing man’s struggles for survival in a world in which fierce emergent capitalism is fast eroding pristine social welfarism which once protected the weak and strong alike.