This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.
'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts
Conceived new truths.
Telling us that truth is not truth of swords
But the long buds growing from the ruins.'
These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi
Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in