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What is the essential classic literature from the African continent?

>> No.17297620

>>17297603
No idea, anon. But there is a book about the Angolan independence war that they used in a college entrance exam here in Brazil. "Mayombe" by Pepetela.

>> No.17297625

your mom's vacation diary, it's very bataille-esque

>> No.17297860

They didn't really develop it in all honesty.
There's some kind of mythology about a spider, read that I guess. Goggle African spider mythology or something.

>> No.17297916

>>17297603
There isn't one. "Who is the Tolstoy of the Zulus?"

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>>17297603
This

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>>17298117
Wrong pic, meant this

>> No.17298249

>>17297916
Tolstoy is the Tolstoy of the Zulus. Great art is universal.

>> No.17298250 [DELETED] 

They don't have any becaue they're proto humans mostly

>> No.17298259

>>17298250
No, you're thinking of the Irish race

>> No.17298272

>>17298249
Cringe.

>> No.17298274

>>17297603
Confessions & The City of God lmao

>> No.17298292

>>17298259
No I'm not

>> No.17298313

>>17298292
The Irish are the lowest rung of the human race don't deny it because of the Reddit meme of hating black people at least they are human beings, the Irish aren't lmao

>> No.17298591

>>17298313
Nigger spotted.

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>>17298274
B A S E D
This Nigga gets it.

>> No.17298641

>>17298591
Potato sucking drunk inbred pedo papist Fenian paddy leprechaun Irishman spotted.

>> No.17298646

>>17298611
I love this painting so much:
>BTFO Pelagius
>BTFO Caelestius
>BTFO Julian of Eclanum
How can one man be so based?

>> No.17298663

>>17297603
Looks like Mr Popo from dragon ball z

>> No.17298670

>>17298663
You're right can't believe I didn't notice it at first lmfao

>> No.17298680

>>17297603
Does North Africa count?

>> No.17298683

>>17298611
This painting is labelled like a political cartoon.
>VERITAS
>PELAGIVS
>BIBLIA SACRA on page 400
Also he isn't even reading the Bible he's getting truth from some outside light source, probably Satan

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>>17298683
Back to your porch, prot.

>> No.17298758

>>17297603
Muqqadima by Ian Khuldun

>> No.17298766

>>17298683
Seethe
St. Augustine of Hippo was receiving divine inspiration (probably brought on by the Holy Ghost).
If anyone is inspired by Satan it's you for being such a gigantic faggot.

>> No.17298811

>>17298766
>Hippo
Lolwut

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>>17297603
weak bait but i'll bite.

>Timbuktu Chronicles is the collective name for a group of writings created in Timbuktu in the second half of the 17th century.

> The qasā'id of Ahmadou Bamba

> The Epic of Sunjata

>Collected works of Usman dan Fodio (think the African Alexander)

> Collected Works of Nana Asma'u

Pic is Touba in Senegal

>> No.17298826

>>17298821
Muslimchads I kneel

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>>17298811
Hippo as in Hippo Regius, a town in Roman Africa whose name roughly translates to “The Royal Harbor.”

>> No.17298850

>>17298663
It is

>> No.17298851

>>17298313
Hey, some of the best writers of all time were Irish. You're just seething over our amazing culture

>> No.17298866

>>17298851
Being drunken ugly inbreds who enslave women rape children and bury babies alive in septic tanks to die painfully? Great culture Paddy. Ulster is eternally British.

>> No.17298868

>>17297603
Gassire's lute, it's an African epic, like Beowulf or the Illiad, you asked for classic literature, here is a true classic. Not read it, but still, you asked for it.

>> No.17299289

>>17298821
B A S E D

>> No.17299299 [DELETED] 

>>17297603
niggers; and thee; niggards

>> No.17299458

i like my life in the bush of ghosts

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Call of the heckin fucking Crocodile