'Yet in their finger upon
Our navel
The midwives of the spirit say
They feel a foetal throb.'
The dominant literary device used in the extract above from Acquahs' In the Navel of the Soul is

And your laughter like a flame
piercing the shadows
Has revealed Africa to me beyond
the snow of yesterday.
From the poem above, shadow means

Caliph: ....... son, Open all your ears.
May Allah grant us the fortitude to accept his commands
.... Now the rest is my burden.
I am willing to accept Allah's
will in the matter.
The language of the speaker above is

'Emonewua: You it is who own me, and I speak by your permission. When I came home with my husband this morning, believing my mother was ill and
needed nursing, little knew I was walking into a house of ruin
J.P Clark-Bekederemo: The Boat
From the excerpt above, the speaker is

That quality in a literal work which evokes tenderness, pity or sorrow is