JAMB - Literature In English (1998 - No. 11)

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.
Kofi Awoonor's 'Songs of Sorrow' is concerned with devastation because
the poet had fought in many wars
of the destruction of part of Africa by the weather
of the impact of white domination on parts of Africa
of the destruction of the shrines of the ancestors

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