Related Research Articles
Kita is a town and urban commune in western Mali. The town is the capital of the Kita Cercle in the Kayes Region. It lies on the eastern slope of Mount Kita, known for its caves and rock paintings. Today, the town is known for its music, its annual Roman Catholic pilgrimage and its role as a processing center for the surrounding cotton- and peanut-growing region. Kita lies on the Dakar-Niger Railway and is the largest transit hub between Bamako and Kayes. In the 2009 census the urban commune had a population of 48,947.
Simon E. Gikandi is a Kenyan Literature Professor and Postcolonial scholar. He is the Robert Schirmer Professor of English at Princeton University. He is perhaps best known for his co-editorship of The Cambridge History of African and Caribbean Literature. He has also done important work on the modern African novel, and two distinguished African novelists: Chinua Achebe and Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o. In 2019 he became the president of the Modern Language Association.
The Society for Promoting Igbo Language and Culture (SPILC) was founded in 1949 by Frederick Chidozie Ogbalu for the promotion of the Igbo language and culture, and has since created a standard dialect for Igbo.
R. Mugo Gatheru was a Kenyan writer. His autobiography A Child of Two Worlds describes growing up in colonial Kenya.
Bahadur Tejani is a Kenyan poet, novelist, playwright and literary critic.
Leïla Aouchal is a French-Algerian writer.
References
- ↑ Mark Ellingham; Orla Duane; Vanessa Dowell, eds. (November 1999). Africa, Europe and the Middle East. World music. 1. London: Rough Guides. p. 550. ISBN 1-85828-635-2.
- ↑ Gikandi, Simon (2003). Gikandi, Simon (ed.). Encyclopedia of African literature. Taylor & Francis. p. 575. ISBN 0-415-23019-5 . Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  | This Malian biographical article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
 | This article on an African singer is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |