This paper examines representations of Africa in Shilia Kaaya’s poetry. Kaaya’s The Bleeding Heart and other Poems (2009) features thirty-eight poems covering diverse themes. This paper focuses on ten poems which are devoted to colonialism, neo-colonialism and political problems besetting contemporary Africa. It argues that Kaaya’s poetry interrogates the dynamics of colonialism, neo-colonialism and the political problems in Africa and their effect on the development of Africa. It demonstrates how Kaaya’s poems raise salient issues about how Africa’s development — economically and politically, is undermined by both the European coloniser and Africans themselves. The Archetypal approach, which describes images found in a variety of poems wr...
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African Literature, especially, African poetry has been passing through a transitional period, tryin...
This paper examines modernist aesthetics in modern African poetry. The aim of this undertaking is pr...
This paper presents a comparative study of six poems drawn from across Africa and beyond. One of the...
The paper examines the various voices in African poetry. African poets use their themes as echoes to...
This article investigates the ways in which Mbuh Tennu Mbuh’s poems contribute to the on-going debat...
This article exposes and interrogates Chirikure’s depiction of autochthony. It is an effort toward...
Poetry has over the centuries been envisioned as a butterfly-art with less didactics. Hence just as ...
This research analyzed about imageries in the Mother Africa, May I Return? poem. The poem of Black L...
The study is a survey of critical perspectives on a selection of modern African poets who concerned ...
This article discusses how an African woman faces the postcolonial complexity as presented in the po...
David Rubadiri’s literary works embody a melancholy which is an inevitable outcome of the colonial e...
Examining the African suffering during the colonialism period and describing the different miseries ...
This article discusses how an African woman faces the postcolonial complexity as presented in the p...
This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boun...
Corruption has been one of the main challenges bedeviling the African society. Most artistic works i...
African Literature, especially, African poetry has been passing through a transitional period, tryin...
This paper examines modernist aesthetics in modern African poetry. The aim of this undertaking is pr...
This paper presents a comparative study of six poems drawn from across Africa and beyond. One of the...
The paper examines the various voices in African poetry. African poets use their themes as echoes to...
This article investigates the ways in which Mbuh Tennu Mbuh’s poems contribute to the on-going debat...
This article exposes and interrogates Chirikure’s depiction of autochthony. It is an effort toward...
Poetry has over the centuries been envisioned as a butterfly-art with less didactics. Hence just as ...
This research analyzed about imageries in the Mother Africa, May I Return? poem. The poem of Black L...
The study is a survey of critical perspectives on a selection of modern African poets who concerned ...
This article discusses how an African woman faces the postcolonial complexity as presented in the po...
David Rubadiri’s literary works embody a melancholy which is an inevitable outcome of the colonial e...
Examining the African suffering during the colonialism period and describing the different miseries ...
This article discusses how an African woman faces the postcolonial complexity as presented in the p...
This paper explores the construction of affective solidarities within and across the spaces and boun...
Corruption has been one of the main challenges bedeviling the African society. Most artistic works i...
African Literature, especially, African poetry has been passing through a transitional period, tryin...
This paper examines modernist aesthetics in modern African poetry. The aim of this undertaking is pr...