Monthly Archives: May, 2021

The poem, “Black Woman”, like every of Senghor’s poem, is a negritude poem. It is quite clearly about the praise of the African woman as a person and symbol of the richness of the African culture. The poem expresses the beauty of the African woman (and by extension the African culture) that was hitherto expressed in the negative light.

I cannot blind myself to putrefying carcasses in the market place pulling giant vultures from the sky.   Nor to these flywhisks: how can I escape these mind-ripping scorpion-tails deployed in...

The narrator tells us Joe’s story; one Joe himself has often described as “a mixture of chance and hard work”. The millionaire gold dealer...

The themes in Maya Angelou’s Caged Bird are freedom versus bondage, discrimination, and unfulfilled dreams.   (1) FREEDOM VERSUS BONDAGE In Caged Bird, the poet pits freedom...

Some of the themes in Alex Agyei-Agyiri’s Unexpected Joy at Dawn include the theme of xenophobia, the theme of alienation, the theme of separation,...

Literature-in-English is a very important subject in secondary school curriculum; at least for the art students. It is a required subject to study courses...

Maya Angelou’s poem addresses the harsh realities of the African Americans. In “the free bird”, she adumbrates what living in freedom means and in...

Have you ever been locked in a room, either by accident or out of your own design? I had been locked from the outside...

Basic Facts (1) Second Class Citizen is one of the remarkable novels Buchi Emecheta wrote. (2) It’s one of the two African Prose recommended for Literature-in-English...

In the previous chapters, the narrator lets us into the past history of an all-embracing Ghana. We also get ourselves acquainted with Mama Olu...

In Chapters One to Five of Part One, we have encountered the characters of Mama Orojo, Nii Tackie, Massa, Ibuk, and Tom Monday. Obviously,...

Abiodun J. Macaulay's Obanla (Travails of Our Heroes) paints a bigger picture of a society, Iluora, largely infested by ills perpetrated within the corridors...