Africa

the literature of the diaspora

Abstract

The African diaspora literature in general is a literature of nostalgia. Such nostalgia is easy to identify in much of the African literature. Culture shock is one of the elements that forces individuals in the diaspora to transculture themselves generating ideological, moral, ethical and philosophical values conflicts. Such conflicts are also reflected in African literature. The nostalgia of African literature pervades the European scientism, however, it is in part a specifically African-subjective-ontological literature, which does not negate the Western scientism, but claims the forgotten memory of their ancestors that is not reflected in Western literature. On the other hand, African literature has its own ritual and rational myths that are peculiar to them within their ethnic groups (tribes) and ethnolinguistic expression of their own identity and history. Also characteristic of African literature in the diaspora is the concern with politics in Africa, since many of their governments are dictatorial, and on the other hand the Eurocentric racism, the search for identity, the struggle for equality and the recovery of the memory that has throughout history been taken from or denied them. Our analysis consists of poems and essays by Agostinho Neto, Sacred Hope, The Equal Voice and contemporary African authors.