JAMB - Literature In English (1998 - No. 10)

This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
''They too are the earth
Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.
Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the
material for the shoes of the poor
repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
hope of the oppressed for a better life
oppression of the dispossessed

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