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'In Umuaro it is not our custom to refuse a call, although we may refuse to do what the caller asks.  Ezeulu does not want to refuse the white man's call and so he is sending his son!'

Chinua Achebe, Arrow of God

The lines above illustrate the use of

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'Those who have nothing but guns for the hungry and think of nothing but death and dying let them spend our earth's fortune harvesting blood from the fields of war. The last banquet shall be their children's blood.

Kofi Anyidoho, "Blood Harvest"

The stanza above succinctly presents the

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'Thus; quixoting till a cast-off of my land I sing and fare, person to loved-one pressed braced for this pressure and the captor's hand that snaps off service like a weathered strand...'

Dennis Brutus 'A Troubadour I Traverse'

In the lines above, the poet-persona expresses

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Africa my Africa of proud warriors in ancestral savannahs...
I have never known you but your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields....

David Diop, "Africa"

In the lines above, Diop uses

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Linda's words above express a feeling of