The traumatic after-math of
Transatlantic Slave Trade during the age of 16th to 19th
century has established the historical art of African Diaspora. With the help
of which, the literary domain of this region got diversified and globally
renowned. The colonial rule in this region has hurtfully transferred the so
called slaves to various regions in Europe, Asia and America. These series of
humans who were shipped beyond boundaries were the dominating reason for the
establishment of Diaspora literature in Africa.
Rather, they are considered as the founder of this genre of literary
work, most precisely, the “founding myth”.
The African habitants who were
transported beyond their geographical boundaries before 1960s were the actual
discoverer of Diaspora literature in Africa. Cultural, social, political,
philosophical or even the humanitarian aspects of the then Africa were best
expressed by these series of African Diaspora authors. Generation
of effective and corrective traditional information about this region has been
eased with their paramount literary works. As Africa is known to be related
with the Oral form of literature only, Diaspora made the entire platform even
more fertile and at the same time diversified. No wonder, they are of total
blessing for the entire society and the continent as a whole.
Such is the significance of this literary
format that the connection of this genre can also be found at an artistic work
of gem like Nigerian writer. Not
only the negative consequences of colonization even the difficult course of
decolonization in Africa are finely depicted in their indigenous creative work.
However, by the end of 1980s, the social and political and various other
essential segments in Africa got drastically changed. Those were the time when
the continent was victimized with the awful condition of poverty, unemployment,
political persecution and many more. Even then, the importance of this Diaspora
literature didn’t got reduced. Appreciative attributes of which is directly
associated with the contemporary writers, poets and authors of Africa too.