Medieval African Literature (700 to 1500 CE)
The material below is part of a larger project still in progress, the anthology Early African Literature: The Written Roots from 3000 BCE to 1900 CE, and thus is still being researched and is provisional. Comments and corrections welcome.
Chapter 8: North African Written Texts
Chapter 8: East African Written Texts (Gəʾəz)
Chapter 9: West African Written Texts (Arabic, Bornu, Songhai, Fulani, and Hausa?)