The Question of Elitism, Medium and Audience in African Literature: Examples from Kiswahili Short Story
Abstract/ Overview
Since the Makerere Conference of 1962, the question of what is ‘African Literature’ has
remained unresolved. To a large extent a great number of scholars led by Ngugi reduced the
whole question to that of language. This paper by drawing examples from the Kiswahili
short story suggests a wider range of aspects of literature to be considered in the
decolonization of African Literature.