Indeed West African authors became very skilled at Islamic teachings, philosophy and laws once Islamic culture was introduced to them.
In a similar to how many Native South Americans authors became pretty skilled at Spanish/Iberian literature, laws and traditions because of Colonization.
However, both depended on an outside foundation to originate. Hence why I don't think West African literary tradition was really separated from Islamic literary tradition.
That's mostly not true, Africans had literary traditions which predated Islam, something i've covered on this blog multiple times, And so did Native americans before Columbus
The choice to create a tradition of history writing was informed by internal processes rather than the simple adoption of islam, a religion which was taken up more than 500 years prior to the earliest chronicle mentioned here
secondly, Africa and Islam are not two mutually exclusive conceptual categories, anymore than European and christian, so the chronicles are about as islamic as the european ones are christian
Indeed West African authors became very skilled at Islamic teachings, philosophy and laws once Islamic culture was introduced to them.
In a similar to how many Native South Americans authors became pretty skilled at Spanish/Iberian literature, laws and traditions because of Colonization.
However, both depended on an outside foundation to originate. Hence why I don't think West African literary tradition was really separated from Islamic literary tradition.
That's mostly not true, Africans had literary traditions which predated Islam, something i've covered on this blog multiple times, And so did Native americans before Columbus
The choice to create a tradition of history writing was informed by internal processes rather than the simple adoption of islam, a religion which was taken up more than 500 years prior to the earliest chronicle mentioned here
secondly, Africa and Islam are not two mutually exclusive conceptual categories, anymore than European and christian, so the chronicles are about as islamic as the european ones are christian