Ressources De L'oralite Dans Allah N'est Pas Oblige D'ahmadou Kourouma Et Things Fall Apart De Chinua Achebe

📄 Project Abstract

This is a critical survey of African oral literature in Allah n'est pas obligé by Ahmadou Kourouma and Things Fall Apart written by Chinua Achebe. It tries among other things to examine and show the existence of the elements of oral literature in the said novels. Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart (1958) and Ahmadou Kourouma's Allah n'est pas obligé (2000), are novels from two different periods: the former, a colonial novel and the latter, a post-colonial novel. These novels are endowed with rich cultural African heritages. A good number of critics have made several references to the igbonisation of English language by Chinua Achebe and the malinkenisation of the French language by Ahmadou Kourouma in these novels. None has dared to compare the two creative works, as we have attempted in this study, bearing in mind that one of the authors is an anglophone writer and the other, a francophone writer. Our investigations could not have claimed to be exhaustive. We are limiting our study to ...