/lit/ - Literature

One line of Shakespeare is worth more than anything ever written in Sub-Saharan Africa. Prove me wrong.

>>13267962
>*[phrase]*
What did anon mean by greentexting and adding redundant "twitter narration" stars?
You need to go back OP.

>>13267987
>>sub-saharan
>>heh I got them there the niggest of nigs come from sub-saharan africa
>forgets about South Africa
J.M. Coetzee.

>>13268007
>being so shit at literature that you need to claim white immigrant writers

>>13267962
Give them time. Rome wasn't built in a day

I am sure they conceived lots of our oldest stories and they are just not properly credited

>>13267962
>"universal literature" is a real thing that actually exists

>Egypt
>Algeria
Excuse me?

>>13268031
They've had millenia. Anglo and Latin America are much much younger yet have a stronger and infinitely superior body of literature. There's no excuses.

>>13268029
>white
>immigrant

>>13268064
?

>>13268060
Camus, Derrida, Frantz Fanon, all early Alexandria's literature and philosophy. Lmao

>>13268068
>actually thinking Coetzee was white or an immigrant

>>13268007
>J.M. Coetzee.
Absolutely godawful taste. Some of the worst books I've ever read

>>13268081
>>13268088
based and redpilled

>>13268079
None of those authors is a nigger from Africa.

>>13268081
based haddock poster

Pleb

>>13268081
dis nigga serious

my understanding is that much of the continent was not literate prior to european colonization. the exceptions are the regions north of the sahel, which have produced major literary figures (st augustine), and the horn, whose literary output i know nothing about. outside those areas, african literature did not begin until the 18th (?) century, though of course there were myths and stories transmitted orally throughout the ages. anyway i like chinua achebe.

>>13267962
>doesn't know Augustine
>doesn't know Euclid
>doesn't know ibn Battuta
>doesn't know ibn Tufail
>doesn't know Camus
>doesn't know Cavafy
>not even Blixen
You're pleb even for an angsty American teenager.

>>13268060
That's why he said sub-saharn. He thinks it makes his bait unbeatable. It's like saying "name a good writer of X nationality" and then excluding all writers of merit from that country for being valid answer.

>>13267962
Don't forget about eminent poet, DJ and dirt observer Ken Saro "Wiki-wiki" Wiwa.

>>13268079
>Camus
Euro-blooded
>Derrida
Euro-blooded
>Frantz Fanon
Not African
>>13268007
>J.M. Coetzee
Euro-blooded
>>13268102
>Filippo Tommaso Marinetti
Euro-blooded
>>13268124
>Mia Couto
Euro-blooded

lmao let's be honest there's nothing on the level of Shakespeare, Dante, Cervantes, Borges, Blake, Racine, etc. And if it is, he's probably Euro-blooded or not actually good nor relevant to Universal Literature.

>>13268176
kek, Pushkin now Turkish.

>>13268193
It is sometimes claimed (mainly by Afrocentrists) that Pushkin was black. This claim is false. While Pushkin's great-grandfather Abram Gannibal was black, all other ancestral lines of the poet consisted of whites, and thus Pushkin was no more than 1/8 black. US Afrocentrists by the one-drop rule might still claim Pushkin as "colored", but that is an issue of US, not Russian sociology, and doesn't change the numbers of one African great-grandparent vs. seven Eurasian ones.

>>13268213
>Pushkin scandi and German slav now
If you want to argue his family tree, you should probably look up more than the black bits.

>>13268007
>hsa to pick an euro

I feel kind of sad for the black folks

>>13268213
Also, you'll note I said Turkish, not black.

>>13268176
>gatekeeping

>>13268232
>being on topic is bad

>>13268243
>>>/int/

>>13268243
>being anal is being on topic

>>13268252
This is not an argument. I think you entered the wrong thread.

>>13268288
Come now, don't tell the American right wing the reason they're against charity and pro gold backed is because of a black man on hajj who liked libraries. They don't need any more help in speeding their own deaths.

>>13268297

>>13268302
Did you see the librarians v ISIS mission from them?

>>13267962
EXKKK(YOU)SE ME WHYBOI!

>>13268311
We

>>13268306
Enlighten me

>>13268288
>>13268302
>>13268336
>sandcastles with sticks poking out
whoa ....

>>13268351
jelly white boi

>>13267962
>>*contributes nothing worth to Universal Literature*

>>13268356
>>13268336
What did he mean by this?

>>13268361
Ironically that's centered on the Middle East and India. They've contributed way more than Africack.

>>13268336
Look up Timbuktu librarians and ISIS and you should get articles about them smuggling and concealing books.

>>13268356
>implying we're envious of nigger-made children tier huts when we have majestic constructions like pic related
Delusional Nigs.

>>13268399
that's tacky as fuck my dude

>>13268387
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timbuktu_Manuscripts#Destruction_and_evacuation_of_manuscripts
>>13268373
white bois have tried to erase our culture, trying to make us believe that nothing ever happened in Africa and that we wiz just dumb apes. This is evidence to the contrary, fight the ignorance imposed by the white devils my melanin-enriched brothers!

>>13268399
does this look like a mud hut to you?

>>13268425
Yeah, tbqhwy.

>>13268351

>>13268425
>being proud of an adobe house
this has to be bait lmao

>>13268441
>my peasants > your peasants HAHA I win

>>13268436
I want to be clear. I do not hate white people. I only hate the colonialists who robbed and raped my mother Africa. I am proud to be black.

>>13268413
>white bois have tried to erase our culture, trying to make us believe that nothing ever happened in Africa and that we wiz just dumb apes. This is evidence to the contrary, fight the ignorance imposed by the white devils my melanin-enriched brothers!
You have no relevant culture. You can't even stay on topic and find at least 25 Negroes from Africa who've written something relevant to Universal Literature lmao all you do is post your pathetic mud huts and adobe houses. 2/10 bait, made me reply.

>>13268470
Colonization made your pic related possible. That's literally European architecture.

>>13268489
>Picture of Florence

>>13268489
You do know that's actually europe you fucking retard

>>13268508
you got me there, anon.

>>13268489
That's Portuguese a.k.a African architecture. Finding out that Africans have built things more complex than mud huts makes the white devils fly into a rage

>>13268399
>Let's use the castle of Ludwig the Mad Architect and Downfall of Bavaria as a sign of success
You're madder than Ludwig and he spent millions importing shit from Africa and Arabia for architectural follies.

People of African descent contributed nearly everything to popular music though. Jazz, blues, rock, hip hop etc.

>>13268537
>niggernoise
>good