The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'Piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase
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50 questionsEcho the stars
The forest howls
And between the tress
The dark sun appears.
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is
Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of
The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'
The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with
In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop suggests that the Christians missionaries were agents of
Which of the following statement is NOT true of the two 'Abiku' poems by J.P Clark and Wole Soyinka?
The tone of Wole Soyinka's 'Abiku is
From the poem itself, it is easy to tell that J.P. Clark's Abiku' is set in
The impression created of the rain in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of
The dominant mood in J.P. Clark's 'Night Rain' is that of
In Great Expectations, Pip's reaction to the news that his fortune had been bestowed on him by Magwitch was
When Mr. Jagger''s told Joe Gargery to ''bear in mind, that Brag is a good dog, but Holdfast is a better'', what he meant was that
Joe Gargery is important in Great Expectations mainly because he
The effect of Pip's association with the inmates of Satis house was made to make him
The protagonist of Charles Dicken's Great Expectations is
From Madza's behavior after his return to Kala
it can be deduced that the most important lesson he learned from his sojourn in Kala is that
'Why the hell can't some of you caught him for me
Are you going to let a boy make a public laughing stock of his own father?
The speaker of these words is the father of
The attitude of the young men of Kala towards their chief can be described as
Medza's Mission To Kala was important mainly because it
In Mission To Kala, Medza regarded himself as a professional failure because he