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Abstract
Nations across time, space and civilizations have evolved from Orality to written culture. Since language is the prima-facie agent of any culture in any society, orature derived from Africa should be treated along this paradigm. Part of Western epistemic violence against Africa is to relegate the status of orature. This paper sets out to deconstruct the erroneous impression of the West about African Oral Traditions. It draws its strength from the literary theory of Pluriversalism. The paper argues that with the emergence of Nobel Prize winners in Literature from the Continent, it emphasizes that African literature has come of age. Therefore, there is an urgent need for a re-evaluation and canonization of African Literature. The paper concludes on the notion that irrespective of the much talk about linguistic globalization, if welsh as an indigenous language is used as an official medium of communication in Britain, and others in the Asiatic world, then Africans must not fail to promote our oral arts and other knowledge production in the New Information World Order (NIWO).