JAMB - Literature In English (1990 - No. 12)
This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'When our Dead come with their Dead
When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'
These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to
'When our Dead come with their Dead
When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'
These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to
the way in which the dead communicate with us
the clash of cultures in modern civilization
the elders' lack of sophistication
our inability to understand our ancestors
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