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Many people know Africa for its extreme poverty and misery, a legacy of colonial and imperialist exploitation that occurred in the countries of the continent. But the continent is also a place for many contrasts and is home to many destinations that inhabit the imagination of travelers around the world.
Despite economic and political difficulties, the African continent is increasingly emerging as an interesting travel itinerary. It is a sophisticated and wild continent, with tourist destinations for all tastes.
Africa is the third most extensive continent on the planet, with about 30 million square kilometers, covering 20.3% of the total land area of the globe. Such a big land could only harbor a lot of diversity: there are 54 countries, 2092 languages spoken, plus eight thousand dialects. The presence of countless variants sharing the same spaces provide unique and intricate cultures.
This immense continent is divided into two main regions: Sub-Saharan Africa and North Africa. The first comprises the entire region below the Sahara desert, characterized by a black majority population and greater ethnic diversity. The second is more to the north and includes the African Arab populations.
Traveling to Africa means finding the most primitive and untouched side of Nature, whether in contact with animals and visiting parks or watching the sunset in the beautiful savannas that enchant any tourist.
Safaris are the main attraction of the Kenya region, for example. Filled with elephants, lions, giraffes, buffalo and zebras, the land is still home to the mysterious Masai. For those who like an adventure or to see wild animals in their natural habitat, the African continent is an excellent choice as a tourist destination.
Despite all the ecological diversity, trips to Africa do not attract tourists only for safaris. The continent has beautiful countries and that is why it has become one of the favorite destinations for those who want to escape the common tourist circuits.
South Africa, Egypt and Morocco are other places that receive tourists all year round. Visitors go in search of the ethnic, cultural and natural wealth that marks the countries of the continent.
In South Africa, at times, one can even forget that one is close to the savannas. The country has an extraordinary infrastructure, ready to receive any tourist in comfort. The beautiful Cape Town and bustling Johannesburg are two of the many that are attractive for tourism.
In Egypt, the destination is Cairo. A noisy city with traffic that never stops. The urban of today disputes the scenario with the heritage of the ancient Egyptians. Marrakech, Morocco, on the other hand, is one of the most famous cities in the country and is widely used by people who want to know oriental culture without suffering, so intensely, from the conflicts that occur in Islamic countries.
The continent still has several other travel destinations to be explored. From Tanzania to Madagascar, Mozambique and Zanzibar, there is much beauty still little known in the huge African bloc.
South Africa
University of Cape Town Graduate School of Business
MBA, Full Time
Cape Town, South Africa
Full-time (1 year)
University of The Witwatersrand (Wits) Wits Business School
MBA, Full Time
Johannesburg, South Africa
Full-time (1 year)
Africa – literature
African literature can be roughly divided into pre-colonial literature, colonial literature and postcolonial literature.
Pre-colonial literature
The scriptural literature in sub-Saharan Africa has a long history associated with the spread of Christianity and Islam. I 600-t. found in Ethiopia the Bible translated into geez in connection with the consolidation of the Coptic Church, later followed by literature in Amharic. With the spread of Islam in West Africa, a religious literature emerged in Arabic, and the Arabic alphabet was used to write down African languages, the so-called ajami literature. In 1700’s East Africa, there was a regular narrative poetry in Swahili, first in the Arabic alphabet, then in Latin. The earliest poems had the life of the Prophet Muhammad, later the poets sang about local rulers and their urban communities: Lamu, Pate and Mombasa.
The literature belonged to an elite culture and was just as inclined to exclude as to communicate. More significant to the majority of people was oral “literature” or oratorio, who still live in Africa. The function of the orator can be instructive, educational or ritual. It can unite the memory of groups in great narratives, creation myths, cosmologies, or praises of those in power; but it can also convey criticism and liberating laughter. It can be handled by specialized narrators such as the griots of West Africa, but can also be collective, associated with the work and ceremonies of everyday life and consist of family stories, work, struggle, wedding or funeral songs, riddles and moral fables. It includes dramatic performances that fuse dance, music, words and mime – the masked plays and dramatizations of the Yoruba people are known from the 1600’s. A large corpus of oratorios has been written down, and missionaries, colonial officials, and anthropologists have influenced its canonization.
Colonial literature
In the 1800’s. a number of African languages were written by European missionaries. British colonies standardized local languages, taught them, translated the Bible, and encouraged hymn writing. Protestantism wanted to promote a personal relationship with God, and the British tried to build their dominance on the power of local leaders and African tradition. French and Portuguese colonies, where Catholic missions were influential, followed a more assimilationist policy, with education and written activity taking place in the colony language. In West, East, and Central Africa, British colonial administrations established agencies in the 1940’s and 1950’s to promote literature in local languages. They produced school texts and handbooks and supported the development of literature consistent with their interpretation of the tradition.
In South Africa, early Christian missions became widespread. Around 1840 the New Testament was translated, in 1890 the entire Bible was available in Xhosa, Zulu and Sotho, and mission schools showed great activity. In 1916, Fort Hare University was opened, which was central to the development of an African intellectual elite. The growth of African nationalism in this century led to the separation of education and cultural activity in the various mother tongues, culminating in the Bantu Education Act of 1953. Literature in African languages was particularly prominent in South Africa and in white-dominated Rhodesia.
African nationalism and literature before 1960
With the rise of political nationalism in Africa, themes of independence emerged in the literature. In the French colonies, the Malagasy poet Jean-Joseph Rabéarivelo published in the 1920’s; the Senegalese Léopold Sédar Senghor published in 1948 the Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française, a major work of the negritude movement, and in 1947 the journal Présence africaine was founded. In 1954, Cheikh Anta Diop published Nations nègres et culture on the origins of civilization in Africa, and in 1957 Sembène Ousmanes published the cultural clash novel O pays, mon beau peuple. In Ivory Coast, the poet Bernard Binlin Dadié made his debutand in Guinea and Cameroon the first generation of novelists, Camara Laye, Ferdinand Oyono and Mongo Beti in the last decade of colonial times. In Portuguese-dominated Africa, parallels to Senghor’s theme of assertion can be found in Agostinho Neto’s poems from the 1950’s. In British West Africa were Nigerians Cyprian Ekwensi and A. Tutuola released around 1950, and in 1958 appeared Chinua Achebes Things Fall Apart (since. Everything falls apart, 1986).
Important works from colonial-era British East and Central Africa are Jomo Kenyatta’s treatise on the Kikuyu people, Facing Mount Kenya (1938, then in the shadow of Mount Kenya, 1964), and from Rhodesia in English Doris Lessing’s breakthrough The Grass is Singing (1950, then. the grass sings, 1952) and the Shona and ndebele historical novels of Solomon Mutswairo and Peter S. Mahlangu, who was released by the colonial literary agency, but was of great importance for the development of African nationalist self-awareness. South African literature before 1960 includes Thomas Mofolo’s heroic epic on Sotho about the Zulu king Chaka from around 1910, Sol Plaatjeshistorical novel Mhudi (1930), Benedict Wallet Vilakazi’s poetry and novels in Zulu and Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo’s plays and epic poems from the 1930’s. In addition, in the 1950’s, Peter Abrahams’ political novels, short stories, and journalism in magazines such as Drum and autobiographies such as Es’kia Mphahlele’s Down Second Avenue (1959). In terms of publication, white writers with historical colonization romances in Afrikaans dominated, critically challenging texts in English by writers such as Olive Schreiner, Pauline Smith, Alan Paton and Nadine Gordimer and Laurens Jan van der Post’s writings on the primitive authenticity of the Kalahari people.