LITERATURES OF THE DIASPORA: AFRICA A study of selected works from the oral and written literatures of the continent, from ancient Egyptian and Aethiopian literatures to the present. Included will be such authors as Chinua Achebe, Wole Soyinka, Ngugi wa Thiong'o, Leopold Senghor, Okot p'Bitek, Vusamazulu Mutwa, and Mariama Ba.