A descry of the daring the undaring African literature is an echo of the perspective of Prof. Simon Gikandi's interview on "The Genealogies of African Literature ' interviewed by Tinashe Mushakavanhu as posted by the Brittle paper website on Sept. 2020; the interview had a mind-boggling question- "... Can we speculate the futures of African Literature?"
For brevity sake, the key highlight as a take away point into the descry of daring the undaring is simply put in Gikandi's words, open quote " One way of thinking about it, is to think about Africa as a floating signifier that means different things to different people at different times and in different places. end quote. This is to say, African Literature is fluid in nature and as it flows from time periods to generations and geography landscapes it does mould into itself to suit the specificities.
And surely indeed- this is a perfect way to describe the daring the undaring African literature in our today’s society. To put it bluntly, it is the new found space that keeps widening from the new societal issues to the uncovering candid styles of presenting literature by the ever emerging writers and scholars of African literature all the way to the reception of it by the lovers of Literature.
In this regard let me now allow us to get a glimpse of this Daring the Undaring African Literature that is becoming vividly evident each new day:
***** One key example are the platforms that I aforementioned in the previous episode
1. Brittle paper is an African literary blog which has dared the undared to focus mostly on the new voices and works of upcoming vibrant young African writers whose contents are refreshing in thoughts and insights which pose challenging questions that need to be answered in order to get our footing as a society in all the facets of life under the context of the globally driven environment .
2. Writers space Africa is a literary magazine platform that has also dared the undared in creating a room for all the African writers to demystify their uniqueness with a sole aim of which I quote" celebrating an awakening of this generation’s unabashed zeal to tell OUR stories of what it is to be African" end quote.
3. Jalada is a pan African writers' collective whose prime purpose is to have quote and quote "freedom to write without doubts" This daring
the undaring step brought along a series of interesting inventions such as : Jalada Mobile literary Festival and Jalada Book Caravan and many more- all these made the platform a bank for African literaniness.
The three platforms are just but a few of the many daring the undaring moves that African literature has grown into.
*****Second key example which is vividly evident as well, is the expansion of African literary creativity as showcased by the contemporary African authors who have dared to partake the undared. I must say, for factual grounds, my engagement on this, is heavily borrowed from an article on "The Next Generation special issue on contemporary African Literature by Otosirienzie Obi Young posted on 'Open Country Mag' website on April 8th. 2022.
And this is the starter phrase: I quote:
"Most of us were living in the continent, younger millennials, all of us politically tired, many of us economically deprived, every one of us culturally thirsty. We were tired of being tired, which meant we were tired of being afraid, of not aiming for tall dreams." End quote.
Well put.
This is now the asserting spirit in African Literature that has become more prominent and aspirational to its highest peak of literary discourses.
The article highlights a number of authors alongside their dariness from across Africa . I will briefly name a few:
1.In the coast of kenya, Khadija Abdalla
questioned why she couldn’t write a fairytale of her city, she dared this undared hence laying grounds for her novel The House of Rust.
2. In South Africa, Letlhogonolo Mogkoroane and Alma-Nalisha Cele dared the undared and st
