Adabin Afirka
Adabin Afirka wallafe-wallafen ne daga Afirka, ko dai baki ("orature") ko rubuce-rubuce a cikin yarukan Afirka da Afro-Asiatic. Misalai na wallafe-wallafen Afirka na mulkin mallaka za a iya gano su zuwa akalla karni na huɗu AD. Mafi sanannun shine Kebra Negast, ko "Littafin Sarakuna".￼

Wani batu na yau da kullun a lokacin mulkin mallaka shine labarin bawa, sau da yawa ana rubuta shi a Turanci ko Faransanci don masu sauraro na yamma.  Daga cikin sassan farko na wallafe-wallafen Afirka da suka sami yabo mai mahimmanci a duniya shine Things Fall Apart, na Chinua Achebe, wanda aka buga a 1958. Littattafan Afirka a ƙarshen zamanin mulkin mallaka suna ƙara nuna jigogi na 'yanci da' yancin kai. 

Littattafan bayan mulkin mallaka sun zama masu yawa, tare da wasu marubuta da suka koma yarensu. Jigogi na yau da kullun sun haɗa da rikici tsakanin baya da yanzu, al'ada da zamani, kai da al'umma, da kuma siyasa da ci gaba. Gabaɗaya, marubutan mata a yau suna da wakilci sosai a cikin wallafe-wallafen Afirka fiye da yadda suka kasance kafin samun 'yancin kai. Har ila yau, intanet ta canza yanayin wallafe-wallafen Afirka, wanda ya haifar da hauhawar karatun dijital da dandamali na bugawa kamar OkadaBooks.￼

Bayani na gaba ɗaya 
Kamar yadda George Joseph ya lura a cikin babi na wallafe-wallafen Afirka a cikin Fahimtar Afirka ta zamani, yayin da ra'ayoyin Turai game da wallafe-walfinai suka jaddada rabuwa da fasaha da abun ciki, wayar da kan jama'a ta Afirka ta haɗa kuma " wallafe- wallafe-finai" na iya nufin amfani da kalmomi na fasaha don kare fasaha kadai. A al'ada, 'yan Afirka ba sa raba fasaha daga koyarwa. Maimakon rubuta ko raira waƙa don kyakkyawa a cikin kanta, marubutan Afirka, suna karɓar alamun su daga wallafe-wallafen baki, suna amfani da kyakkyawa don taimakawa sadarwa da muhimman gaskiya da bayanai ga al'umma. Ana ɗaukar abu mai kyau saboda gaskiyar da yake bayyana da kuma al'ummomin da yake taimakawa wajen ginawa.

Littattafan baki 
Littattafan baki (ko orature, kalmar da masanin Uganda Pio Zirimu ya kirkira) na iya kasancewa a cikin layi ko aya. Sau da yawa rubutun yana da tatsuniyoyi ko tarihi kuma sau da yawa ya haɗa da labarun halin trickster. Masu ba da labari a Afirka wani lokacin suna amfani da dabarun kira da amsawa don ba da labarinsu. Waƙoƙi sun bayyana waka mai ba da labari wanda ya dogara da ɗan gajeren labari kuma ana yawan rera shi, ta hanyar: labari mai ban sha'awa, aya ta sana'a, aya ta al'ada, waƙoƙin yabo na sarakuna da sauran fitattun mutane. Yabon mawaƙa, bards wani lokacin da ake kira "griots", suna ba da labarinsu tare da kiɗa. Har ila yau ana maimaitawa, sau da yawa ana raira waƙa, waƙoƙin soyayya, waƙoƙi na aiki, waƙomin yara, tare da rubutun kalmomi, karin magana da ma'ana. Wadannan al'adun baki sun kasance a cikin harsuna da yawa ciki har da Fula, Swahili, Hausa, da Wolof.

A Aljeriya, waƙoƙin baki wani muhimmin bangare ne na al'adun Berber lokacin da yawancin jama'a ba su iya karatu ba. Wadannan waƙoƙin, da ake kira Isefra, an yi amfani da su don fannoni na rayuwar addini da ta duniya. Waƙoƙin addini sun haɗa da ibada, labaran annabci, da waƙoƙin girmama tsarkaka. Waƙoƙin duniya na iya kasancewa game da bukukuwan kamar haihuwa da bukukuwannin aure, ko asusun jarumai jarumawa. A matsayin wani misali, a Mali, ana ci gaba da watsa shirye-shiryen baki ko tatsuniyoyi a rediyo a cikin harshen Booma.

Littattafan da suka gabata 
Misalan wallafe-wallafen Afirka na mulkin mallaka suna da yawa. A Habasha, akwai manyan wallafe-wallafen da aka rubuta a cikin Ge'ez wanda ya koma akalla zuwa ƙarni na huɗu AD; aikin da aka fi sani da wannan al'adar shine Kebra Negast, ko "Littafin Sarakuna". Ɗaya daga cikin shahararrun al'adun gargajiya na Afirka shine labarin "trickster", inda karamin dabba ke amfani da basirarsa don tsira daga haɗuwa da manyan halittu. Misalan masu yaudarar dabbobi sun haɗa da Anansi, gizo-gizo a cikin al'adun mutanen Ashanti na Ghana; Ijàpá, tururuwa a cikin al-adun Yoruba na Najeriya; da Sungura, zomo da aka samo a cikin al al'adun tsakiya da Gabashin Afirka. Sauran ayyukan da aka rubuta suna da yawa, wato a Arewacin Afirka, yankunan Sahel na yammacin Afirka da kuma bakin tekun Swahili. Daga Timbuktu kadai, akwai kimanin rubuce-rubuce 300,000 ko fiye da aka ɓoye a cikin ɗakunan karatu daban-daban da tarin masu zaman kansu, galibi an rubuta su a Larabci amma wasu a cikin harsunan asali (watau Fula da Songhai). An rubuta mutane da yawa a sanannen Jami'ar Timbuktu . Abubuwan sun rufe batutuwa da yawa, gami da ilimin taurari, shayari, doka, tarihi, bangaskiya, siyasa, da falsafar. Littattafan Swahili, kamar haka, sun samo asali ne daga koyarwar Islama amma sun bunkasa a cikin yanayin asali, daya daga cikin shahararrun kuma farkon littattafan Swahili shine Utendi wa Tambuka ko "Labarin Tambuka".

Amma ga Maghreb, 'yan Arewacin Afirka kamar Ibn Khaldun sun sami babban bambanci a cikin wallafe-wallafen Larabci. Jami'o'i na Arewacin Afirka na Tsakiya sun yi alfahari da jami'o'in kamar na Fes da Alkahira, tare da adadi mai yawa na wallafe-wallafen don kara musu.

Littattafan mulkin mallaka na Afirka 
Ayyukan Afirka da aka fi sani da su a Yamma daga lokutan mulkin mallaka da cinikin bayi sune ainihin labarun bayi, kamar Olaudah Equiano's The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equano (1789).

A lokacin mulkin mallaka, 'yan Afirka da suka fallasa harsunan Yamma sun fara rubutu a cikin waɗannan harsuna. A cikin 1911, Joseph Ephraim Casely Hayford (wanda aka fi sani da Ekra-Agiman) na Gold Coast (yanzu Ghana) ya buga abin da mai yiwuwa shine littafin Afirka na farko da aka rubuta a Turanci, Habasha Unbound: Nazarin Race Emancipation . Kodayake aikin yana motsawa tsakanin fiction da goyon bayan siyasa, bugawa da sake dubawa mai kyau a cikin manema labarai na Yammacin Turai sun nuna lokacin canji a cikin wallafe-wallafen Afirka.

A wannan lokacin, wasannin Afirka da aka rubuta a Turanci sun fara fitowa. Herbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo na Afirka ta Kudu ya buga wasan Afirka na farko na harshen Ingilishi, The Girl Who Killed to Save: Nongqawuse the Liberator a 1935. A cikin 1962, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o na Kenya ya rubuta wasan kwaikwayo na farko na Gabashin Afirka, The Black Hermit, labari mai gargadi game da "kabilanci" ( nuna bambanci tsakanin kabilun Afirka).

Daga cikin sassan farko na wallafe-wallafen Afirka da suka sami yabo mai mahimmanci a duniya shine littafin Things Fall Apart, na Chinua Achebe . An buga shi a shekara ta 1958, a ƙarshen zamanin mulkin mallaka, Things Fall Apart ya bincika tasirin mulkin mallaka a kan al'ummar Afirka ta gargajiya.

Littattafan Afirka a ƙarshen mulkin mallaka (tsakanin ƙarshen Yaƙin Duniya na I da ƴancin kai) sun ƙara nuna jigogi na' yanci, ƴancin 'yancin kansu, da kuma (tsakanirukan' yan Afirka a yankunan francophone) baƙar fata.  Ɗaya daga cikin shugabannin ƙungiyar negritude, mawaki kuma shugaban Senegal, Léopold Sédar Senghor, ya buga a cikin 1948 tarihin farko na waƙoƙin Faransanci da 'yan Afirka suka rubuta, Anthologie de la nouvelle poésie nègre et malgache de langue française (Anthology of the New Black and Malagasy Poetry in the French Language), wanda ke nuna gabatarwar marubucin Faransanci Jean-Paul Sartre.

Ga marubutan da yawa wannan girmamawa ba ta ƙuntata ga bugawa ba. Mutane da yawa, hakika, sun sha wahala sosai kuma kai tsaye: an zarge su da jefa alhakinsu na fasaha don shiga cikin yaƙi, an kashe Christopher Okigbo a yaƙin Biafra da ƙungiyar Najeriya ta yakin basasa na shekarun 1960; An tsare Mongane Wally Serote a ƙarƙashin Dokar Ta'addanci ta Afirka ta Kudu No. 83 na 1967 tsakanin 1969 da 1970, kuma daga baya ba tare da an taɓa yin shari'a ba; Dan kasarsa Arthur Norjeunta ya kashe kansa; Jack Mapanje na Malawi a kurkuku ba tare da tuhuma ko shari'ar Swarwarwarwar ba; Ken Swarwar da aka dakatar da shi a jami'a; Ken Sharwarwarwar;

Littattafan Afirka na bayan mulkin mallaka 
Tare da 'yanci da karuwar karatu da rubutu tun lokacin da yawancin ƙasashen Afirka suka sami ƴancin kansu a cikin shekarun 1950 da 1960, wallafe-wallafen Afirka sun karu sosai da yawa da kuma karbuwa, tare da ayyukan Afirka da yawa da ke bayyana a cikin tsarin karatun ilimi na Yamma da kuma jerin "mafi kyawun" da aka tattara tun daga ƙarshen karni na 20.  Marubutan Afirka a wannan lokacin sun rubuta a cikin yarukan Yamma (musamman Turanci, Faransanci, da Portuguese) da kuma cikin yarukan gargajiya na Afirka kamar Hausa .

Ali A. Mazrui da sauransu sun ambaci rikice-rikice bakwai a matsayin jigogi: rikici tsakanin Afirka da ta gabata da ta yanzu, tsakanin al'ada da zamani, tsakanin 'yan asalin ƙasar da na waje, tsakanin mutum da al'umma, tsakanin zamantakewa da jari-hujja, tsakanin ci gaba da dogaro da kai da kuma tsakanin Afirka da bil'adama. Sauran jigogi a wannan lokacin sun haɗa da matsalolin zamantakewa kamar cin hanci da rashawa, bambancin tattalin arziki a cikin sabbin ƙasashe masu zaman kansu, da haƙƙoƙi da matsayin mata.  Marubutan mata a yau suna da wakilci sosai a cikin wallafe-wallafen Afirka da aka buga fiye da yadda suka kasance kafin samun 'yancin kai.

A shekara ta 1986, Wole Soyinka na Najeriya ya zama marubucin Afirka na farko bayan samun ƴancin kai don lashe kyautar Nobel a cikin adabi. A baya, an ba da kyautar Albert Camus wanda aka haifa a Aljeriya a shekara ta 1957. Sauran wadanda suka lashe kyautar Nobel ta Afirka a cikin adabi sune Naguib Mahfouz (Masar) a shekarar 1988, Nadine Gordimer (Afirka ta Kudu) a shekarar 1991, John Maxwell Coetzee (Afirika ta Kudu) A shekarar 2003, Doris Lessing (UK / Zimbabwe) a shekarar 2007, da kuma Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania) a shekarar 2021.

Ci gaban zamani 
Akwai rubuce-rubuce da yawa a Afirka tun farkon shekarun da suka gabata (2010), kodayake masu karatu ba koyaushe ne suke bin adadi mai yawa ba. Hakanan mutum na iya lura da bayyanar wasu rubuce-rubucen da suka karya tsarin ilimi. Bugu da kari, ana iya yin nadama game da karancin masu sukar adabi a nahiyar a zamanin yau. Abubuwan da suka faru na wallafe-wallafen suna da kyau sosai, gami da kyaututtuka na wallafe'o'i, wasu daga cikinsu za a iya rarrabe su ta hanyar ra'ayoyinsu na asali. Al'amarin Grand Prix of Literary Associations yana da kyau sosai. Brittle Paper, wani dandamali na kan layi wanda Ainehi Edoro ya kafa, an bayyana shi a matsayin "babban jaridar wallafe-wallafen Afirka". Kamar yadda Bhakti Shringarpure ya lura, "tsarin dijital na kirkirar Afirka ba wai kawai sun canza wallafe-wallafen Afirka ba har ma sun canza al'adun wallafe-walfinai kamar yadda muka sani".

Ƙarin amfani da intanet ya kuma canza yadda masu karatu na wallafe-wallafen Afirka suka sami damar samun abubuwan da ke cikin littattafan Afirka. Wannan ya haifar da hauhawar karatun dijital da dandamali na bugawa kamar OkadaBooks .

Littattafan da aka buga a Afirka 
An kaddamar da shi a cikin 1980 kuma yana gudana har zuwa 2009, an gabatar da kyautar Noma don Bugawa a Afirka ga fitattun marubutan Afirka da malaman da aka buga a Afirka.

Shahararrun litattafan marubuta na Afirka 

 Peter Abrahams (Afrika ta Kudu): Mine Boy (1946), This Island Now, A Wreath for Udomo (1956)
 Chinua Achebe (Najeriya): Arrow of God (1964), No Longer At Ease (1960), Things Fall Apart (1958), A Man of the People (1966), Anthills of the Savannah (1987),  
 Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (Nigeria): Purple Hibiscus (2003), Half of a Yellow Sun (2006), Americanah (2013)
 Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria): The Fishermen (2015), An Orchestra of Minorities' (2019) 
 José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola): Rainy Season, Creole, The Book of Chameleons, My Father's Wives Ama Ata Aidoo (Ghana): Our Sister Killjo (1977), Changes: a Love Story (1991)

 Germano Almeida (Cape Verde): O dia das calças roladas (1982), The Last Will and Testament of Senhor da Silva Araújo Elechi Amadi (Nigeria): The Concubine (novel)|The Concubine (1966), The Great Ponds, Sunset in Biafra Ayi Kwei Armah (Ghana): The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born (1968), Two Thousand Seasons (1973)
 Sefi Atta (Nigeria): Everything Good Will Come (2005)
 Ayesha Harruna Attah (Ghana): Harmattan Rain Mariama Bâ (Senegal): Une si longue lettre (So Long a Letter)
 Chris Barnard (South Africa): Bundu, Mahala Ishmael Beah (Sierra Leone): A Long Way Gone (2007), Radiance of Tomorrow Mongo Beti (Cameroon): Poor Christ of Bomba (1956 as Le Pauvre Christ de Bomba)
 André Brink (South Africa): n' Droe Wit Seisoen (A Dry White Season), Gerugte van Reen (Rumours of Rain) J. M. Coetzee (South Africa): Disgrace (1999), Life & Times of Michael K (1983)
 Mia Couto (Mozambique): Terra Sonâmbula (Sleepwalking Land) Ungulani Ba Ka Khosa (Mozambique): Ualalapi (1987)
 Luís Bernardo Honwana (Mozambique): Nós Matamos O Cão-Tinhoso e Outros Contos, We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Stories (1964)
 Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe): Nervous Conditions (1988), The Book of Not (2006), This Mournable Body Mohammed Dib (Algeria): La grande maison E. K. M. Dido (South Africa): '''n Stringetjie Blou Krale (A String of Blue Beads), Die Storie van Monica Peters (The Story of Monica Peters)
 Assia Djebar (Algeria): Les Enfants du Nouveau Monde
 K. Sello Duiker (South Africa): Thirteen Cents (2000), The Quiet Violence of Dreams
 Buchi Emecheta (Nigeria): The Bride Price (1976), The Slave Girl (1977), The Joys of Motherhood (1979), Destination Biafra (1982)
 Daniel Olorunfemi Fagunwa (Nigeria): Ogboju odẹ ninu igbo irunmalẹ (The Forest of a Thousand Demons)
 Nuruddin Farah (Somaliya): From a Crooked Rib (1970), Maps, Sweet and Sour Milk
 Athol Fugard (South Africa): Tsotsi
 Nadine Gordimer (South Africa): Burger's Daughter (1979), The Conservationist (1974), July's People (1981)
 Alex La Guma (South Africa): In the Fog of the Seasons' End (1972), The Stone-Country (1967), Time of the Butcherbird (1979), A Walk in the Night (2020)
 Abdulrazak Gurnah (Tanzania): Paradise (1994), By the Sea (2001), Afterlives (2020)
 Bessie Head (Botswana): When Rain Clouds Gather (1968), Maru (1971), A Question of Power (1973)
 Moses Isegawa (Uganda): Abyssinian Chronicles (1998)
 Rayda Jacobs (South Africa): The Slave Book, Eyes of the Sky, Confessions of a Gambler
 Tahar Ben Jelloun (Morocco): The Sacred Night, The Sand Child (1985), This Blinding Absence of Light (2001)
 Cheikh Hamidou Kane (Senegal): L'Aventure ambiguë (1961)
 Malama Katulwende (Zambia): Bitterness
 Yasmina Khadra (Algeria): The Swallows of Kabul (2002)
 Christopher Zacharia Lameck (Tanzania): The Mythical Father,  Lost, Ztraceni European Madness, 
 Camara Laye (Guinea): The African Child (L'Enfant noir, 1953), The Radiance of the King (1954)
 Naguib Mahfouz (Egypt): The Beginning and the End (1949), Cairo Trilogy, Children of Gebelawi, Midaq Alley
 Charles Mangua (Kenya): Son of Woman (1971), A Tail in the Mouth
 Sarah Ladipo Manyika (Nigeria): In Dependence (2008)
 Dambudzo Marechera (Zimbabwe): The House of Hunger (1978)
 Dalene Matthee (South Africa): Kringe in 'n bos (Circles in a Forest)
 Zakes Mda (South Africa): Ways of Dying (1995), The Heart of Redness
 Thomas Mofolo (South Africa/Lesotho): Chaka (1925)
 Nadifa Mohamed (Somalia) Black Mamba Boy (2010), The Orchard of Lost Souls (2013), The Fortune Men (2021)
 Bai Tamia Moore (Liberia): Murder in the Cassava Patch (1968)
 Fadhy Mtanga (Tanzania): Kizungumkuti,   Huba, Fungate
 Meja Mwangi (Kenya): Carcase for Hounds (1974), Going Down River Road (1976), Kill Me Quick (1973)
 Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o (Kenya): A Grain of Wheat (1967), Matigari (1986), Petals of Blood (1977), Weep Not, Child (1964), Wizard of the Crow (2006)
 Lewis Nkosi (South Africa): Mandela's Ego (2006), Mating Birds (1986), Underground People (2002)
 Flora Nwapa (Nigeria): Efuru (1966), Idu (1970), One is Enough, Never Again, Women are Different
 Nnedi Okorafor (Nigeria): Zahrah the Windseeker (2005)
 Ben Okri (Nigeria): The Famished Road (1991), Songs of Enchantment (1993)
 Deon Opperman (South Africa): Donkerland (Dark Land), Kruispad (Crossroad), Hartland (Heartland)
 Yambo Ouologuem (Mali): Le Devoir de Violence (Bound to Violence)
 Alan Paton (South Africa): Cry, The Beloved Country (1948)
 Pepetela (Angola) : Muana Puó, Mayombe, A Gloriosa Família (1997)
 Sol Plaatje (South Africa): Mhudi (1930)
 Nawal El Saadawi (Egypt): Woman at Point Zero (1975)
 Tayeb Salih (Sudan): Season of Migration to the North (1966)
 Wilton Sankawulo (Liberia): Birds Are Singing
 Karel Schoeman (South Africa): n Ander Land (Another Country), Na die Geliefde Land (Promised Land)
 Olive Schreiner (South Africa): The Story of an African Farm (1883)
 Benjamin Sehene (Rwanda): Le Feu sous la Soutane (Fire under the Cassock)
 Ousmane Sembène (Senegal): Xala (1973), The Black Docker (Le Docker Noir), God's Bits of Wood (Les Bouts de Bois de Dieu), The Last of the Empire (Le dernier de l'Empire), Tribal Scars (Voltaïque), (1962)
 Wole Soyinka (Nigeria): The Interpreters (1965), Seasons of Anomy (1973), Chronicles from the Land of the Happiest People on Earth (2021)
 Amos Tutuola (Nigeria): The Palm Wine Drinkard (1952), My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (1954), Simbi and the Satyr of the Dark Jungle, Feather Woman of the Jungle, The Witch-Herbalist of the Remote Town, Ajaiyi and his Inherited Poverty
 Marlene van Niekerk (South Africa): Triomf (Triumph, 1994)
 Yvonne Vera (Zimbabwe): Butterfly Burning (1998) 
 José Luandino Vieira (Angola): Luuanda (1963) 
 Joseph Jeffrey Walters (Liberia): Guanya Pau: A Story of an African Princess (1891)
 Berhanu Zerihun (Ethiopia): Ye'imba debdabbéwoch ("Tearful Letters")

Bayani

Bayanan littattafai 

 Za a iya samun ƙarin bayani a wannan talifin a dandalin www.jw.org/ha.
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Haɗin waje 

 Abubuwan da muka gada: Muryoyi daga Afirka Cordite Poetry Review
 Sabon albarkatun wallafe-wallafen Afirka
 The Africa_(Bookshelf) a Project Gutenberg
 Ƙungiyar Littattafan Afirka
 Binciken Littattafan Afirka  An adana shi  
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