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African literature has a reputation for being dark, gritty, realistic portrayals of colonialism/post-colonialism.
What are some African comedies (like Xala) or fantasy (like Wizard of the Crow) or anything else that breaks away from what African literature is normally like?
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Tutuola was the african homer but in prose tbqhwy.
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LUCIO COMIN' ATCHA
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>>9214863
This. The Palm-Wine Drinkard is what you are looking for.
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the travels of Ibn Batuta
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>>9214851
If you want to get away from colonialism and don't mind your reading a little light (and heartwarming), try the no1 ladies detective agency - Botswana is one of the few countries in Africa which didn't suffer under colonial rule because they were perfectly capable of running shit by themselves.
also >>9214918 is superb
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>>9214851
The Famished Road by Okri. or anything else by him
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>>9214851
Read Dambudzo Marechera his Black Sunlight and the House of Hunger are like stream of consciousness wonders. He aimed to write like he was giving the language a shock treatment and it shows. Shit is bananas
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