Aliyu kamal biography of michael

university teacher, novelist, essayist, social transformer and poet, Aliyu Kamal is now considered the foremost writer from northern Nigerian region. He was provoked into becoming a writer for two obvious reasons: first, to contest the claim that little is known about northern Nigerian writers in English.

Secondly, to react to the misconception of many European philosophers and scholars, notably Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel and Hugh Trevor-Roper, who opined that Africa is a continent without history and a people without culture before European exploration and colonization of the continent as well as literary writers such as Joseph Conrad in Heart of Darkness (1902) and Carey in Mr Johnson (1962), who equally propagated the notion that Africa does not have a culture of its own.

Aliyu kamal biography of michael

Differently put, the colonialists regarded Africa as inferior to the white devoid of consideration. The black were the 'Other' and by implication, everyone who is not white becomes 'black'. I