Africa my Africa
TASKS
1) Read the poem. Which other topics can you identify now?
2) Sum up what the poem is about?
3) Examine (analyse) how the figures of speech, imagery and stylistic devices
contribute to convey the image of Africa in the poem.
(Consider the following devices: symbolism, imagery, alliteration, anaphora, repetition, rhetorical
question)
(Think of the following terms: colonial torture, exploitation, oppression, humiliation, identity,
awareness, effects of colonialism)
4) All Nigerian school children must learn the poem by heart.
How have the effects of colonialism shaped Africa's present? Why was this poem chosen
to be learnt by heart?
What would you think if you had to learn a poem about Germany's history by heart?