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Analysis of John Pepper Clark-Bekederemo’s “Song of a Goat”

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Song of a Goat is a one-act drama which revolves around Zifa, a respected landowner afflicted with impotence by the gods. The one-act play which has four scenes features a ritualistic goat sacrifice, reminiscent of ancient religious and classical Greek practices.

Plot Summary of Wole Soyinka’s “Death and the King’s Horseman”

Characters in John Pepper Clark’s “Song of a Goat”

Themes in “Woza Albert!”

Characters in “Woza Albert!”

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2026-2030 Recommended Texts

2026-2030 Recommended Texts

Analysis of Syl Cheney-Coker’s “The Breasts of the Sea”

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The Breasts of the Sea is about the relationship between Europe and Africa in that both continents have experienced bloody phases.

Poem: “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron

Poem: “New Tongue” by Elizabeth L. A. Kamara

Poem: “Hearty Garlands” by S.O.H. Afriyie–Vidza

African Poetry

Poem: “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka

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"Telephone Conversation" by Wole Soyinka depicts a speaker's experience when trying to rent a room, presumably in a European country.

Q & A: Discuss Leopold Sedar Senghor’s “Black Woman” as a Protest Poem

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“Black Woman” belongs in that category of African literature which seeks to use formal education and history to lampoon the injurious influence of the culture contact and the friction it has created as a whole

Analysis of Syl Cheney-Coker’s “The Breasts of the Sea”

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The Breasts of the Sea is about the relationship between Europe and Africa in that both continents have experienced bloody phases.

Poem: “New Tongue” by Elizabeth L. A. Kamara

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They speak in a new tongue And dance new dances Minds battered into new modes and shapes Their eyes revel in the wonder of the new

Poem: “Hearty Garlands” by S.O.H. Afriyie–Vidza

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For a person who has lived as long And one who, as well, has done much As you Life’s whole process blooms into stark beauty

Non-African Prose

Themes in R. L. Stevenson’s “Treasure Island”

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Non-African Prose
Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson pits good against evil and the characters are categorised accordingly

Non-African Poetry

Non-African Drama

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