The Islamic Aspects in Aboulela’s Coloured Lights The Museum and Visitors

Abstract

Africa is a vast continent, the most diverse in term of language and tradition, its people experienced centuries of exploitation and oppression under the European tyranny. From slavery to colonialism, two racist processes. This people found no way but struggle to get their right of independence and freedom. Oral and written literature in Africa is mainly associated with these issues, of slavery and colonialism, and the search for a common identity. Both throughout the continent, but unfortunately female writers contributed in the development of this literature marginalization and criticism from their male counterpart. The term African literature carries with it a particular ambiguity of reference in its present and common usage. There is a symbolic relationship between language, culture and literature in Africa. The cultural aspects in African literature are associated with time, family structure, marriage , names and religion.