黑非洲指撒哈拉沙漠以南的广大非洲地区,包括东非、西非、赤道非洲和南部非洲大陆及诸岛。这些地区有古老而丰富的口头文学传统,有谚语、格言、寓言、诗歌和各种叙事故事等。黑非洲书面文学出现于19世纪后期,开始繁荣于20世纪初,第二次世界大战后达到高潮,出现了一大批知名作家,如塞内加尔的乌斯曼、尼日利亚的索因卡、南非的 Black Africa refers to the vast sub-Saharan Africa region, including East Africa, West Africa, Equatorial Africa and southern continent and islands. There are ancient and rich oral literary traditions in these areas, with proverbs, maxims, allegories, poems and narrative stories. Black-African written literature emerged in the late 19th century, began to flourish in the early 20th century and culminated after the Second World War. A large number of well-known writers, such as Usman of Senegal, Soyinka of Nigeria and South Africa