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In the poem 'The Vultures', David Diop suggests that the Christians missionaries were agents of

  • A. agrarian revolution
  • B. baptism
  • C. justics
  • D. colonialism.
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'The Vultures built in the shadow of their talons
The blood-stained monument of tutelage.'
The image used in the above lines associates the civilizing missions with
  • A. redemption from ignorance
  • B. violence and oppression
  • C. conversion from paganism
  • D. the building of beautiful edifices.
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408

Much of the poetic effect of Birago Diop's 'Viaticum' is gained by the poet's use of

  • A. repetition of symbolic references
  • B. rhetorical questions
  • C. exaggeration
  • D. flowering language.
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The gurgling drums
Echo the stars
The forest howls
And between the tress
The dark sun appears.
The dominant figure of speech in the above lines from Lenrie Peter's 'We Have Come Home' is
  • A. synecdoche
  • B. simile
  • C. metaphor
  • D. personification.
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410

The theme of Gabriel Okara's 'Piano and Drums' is usually summed up in the phrase

  • A. clash of cultures
  • B. primal youth of the African
  • C. beauty of the Concerto
  • D. the decay of African Civilization.
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