ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses African literature of advocacy and the issues, ideas, and problems being discussed for support and solution. Advocacy deals with a cause and aims at solving a problem through specific methods or proposals. Writing on environmentalism falls into the advocacy tradition of building awareness. The writers involved are sensitizing their respective readership to the reality of climate change and the need to take action to reverse it or minimize its adverse effects. Literature of advocacy in Africa involves theatre/drama for rural development. The chapter looks at the various kinds of African literature of advocacy, their forms, techniques, their literariness, and their success or failure as artistic works. It focuses on issues that show up in the African literary scene such as children's issues, climate change and environmentalism, women's individual and human rights, marital abuse, and protection against sexually transmitted diseases such as HIV/AIDS in different parts of Africa.
