African Writers Have Reflected African Heritage Through Their Writings

Abstract

This paper is entitled “African Writers Have Reflected African Heritage through Their Writings”, so it is a verification for this statement which implicates the idea of propagating and spreading the African heritage through creative writings. Having reviewed the literature of the field in question, the researcher found out that great efforts that have been made on the part of African writers since the first generation of writers in making their cultures, values, traditions, landscape, and all the features and properties of their nations well known throughout the world in rapid paces. Some African writers’ literary works were displayed in the below postulated points to reinforce and consolidate the core concept of the study. They were also analyzed and synthised in search of showing to what extent do they implicate the African heritage with its various components. African languages were also reviewed as they represent the linguistic component which is the effective medium that is used for cultural heritage transmission. The investigated points depicted how African writers manipulate language for this purpose as well as they elaborated showed the controversial issues in using foreign or colonial languages in writing African literature. On the basis of the analogy which was made in this study, the researcher put forward some important recommendations, some of which are: Africa is profoundly rich in cultural heritage which is deeply rooted in every single African country, so it should be conveyed to the rest of the world through the various types of writings, literary movements in Africa should encourage African writers to undertake the onus of representing their heritage perfectly in their writings as well as school plays would contribute positively to the process of reflecting the African heritage and familiarizing the students with their local cultures, values and traditions.