E-Lecture - Theme of Hope and Life

The poet’s persona is optimistic about the turnaround of events. He is hopeful for a tomorrow with better living conditions. He posits that both slavery and colonialism would be extinguished by the strong blow of time. In “the conscious brilliance of hidden sensations”, the poet predicts a better future soon to unfold.

He also reiterates the continued existence of the African continent and Africans with “alive”, “living”, “live” despite the attempts to subjugate Africa and her people. Nonetheless, Africans “bubble in dream”; exist “in perpetual alliance of everything that lives”; and “shout the sound of life”. The poet also describes Africans as “imperishable particles/Of the grieved lands of Africa”. A signification of the indestructibility of Africa. Africans are scattered all over the world and remain the evidences of the African tormented history.

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