Abstract-Africa has rich literary traditions as a part of its culcutural heritage. The modern African fiction is an outcome of interaction between oral story telling and European narrative style i.e novel. African fiction portrays the socio-culcutural developments in African society, culcuture and literature and how the poetics of modern fiction came into being. Keywords-African fiction, Anglo-phone, Colonialism, Oral-Tradition, Poetics,Black-aesthetics,Negritude .