African Novel Course
Enhance your expertise in African novels through close reading, text comparison, and engagement with key critics. Perfect for humanities professionals aiming to sharpen analysis, strengthen arguments, and gain deeper cultural insights into African literature.

4 to 360 hours flexible workload
valid certificate in your country
What will I learn?
This course equips you with tools to analyse major African novels confidently, practising close reading of dialogue, imagery, and narrative voice, using key scholarship, and crafting comparative projects. It covers core theories, historical contexts, and themes like migration, gender, colonialism, and tradition versus modernity.
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Develop skills
- Close reading of African novels: analyse voice, orality, imagery, and metaphor.
- Use literary criticism effectively: locate, assess, and integrate key arguments.
- Design comparative projects: frame guiding questions and organise cross-novel analysis.
- Apply thematic lenses: study migration, gender, colonialism, and modernity in fiction.
- Contextualise texts: link novels to African histories, movements, and critical debates.
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