JAMB - Literature In English (1998 - No. 13)

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.

''O incomprehensible God!

Shall my pilot be''

These lines in Okara''s ''The Call of the River Nun'' reveal a religious undertone which also expresses the
mystery of existence
omnipotence of God
duality of life
inevitability of death

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