Abstract
This article reviews and discusses the development of African Languages’ literature and
scholarship in the past one hundred years, from 1922 to 2022. It outlines some of the major
trends and tropes in these literatures and the scholarship thereof. Based on the textual approach,
this article is an analysis of analyses in the sense that it analyses existing studies and draw
conclusions. The argument put forward in this article is that some of the approaches to literary
analyses are so dominant that African indigenous languages literature is synonymous to them.
The major defining features of African indigenous language scholarship are structuralism,
narratology, and stylistics. The article also argues that scholars should broaden their theories
by using other frameworks for the future of these literatures.