JAMB - Literature In English (2010 - No. 39)
Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs.
I have never known you
but your blood flows in my vein
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates
the field...
David Diop, 'Africa'
In the lines above, Diop uses
I have never known you
but your blood flows in my vein
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates
the field...
David Diop, 'Africa'
In the lines above, Diop uses
onomatopoeia
metaphor
personification
simile
Explanation
A drop expresses Africa as a continent as if it has human attributes.
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