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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
Gabriel Okara presents the Black in relation to the child-Front in his poem 'The Fisherman's invocation as a source of
  • A. inspiration
  • B. destruction
  • C. anxiety
  • D. uncertainty
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
'When our Dead come with their Dead
When they have spoken to us with their clumsy voices...'
These lines from Birago Diop's poem. 'Vanity', refer to
  • A. the way in which the dead communicate with us
  • B. the clash of cultures in modern civilization
  • C. the elders' lack of sophistication
  • D. our inability to understand our ancestors
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
The words 'naked' and 'barefoot' as used in Christopher Okigbo's 'The Passage' suggest
  • A. affluence
  • B. primitivity
  • C. penury
  • D. reverence
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
Theo Luzuka's 'The Motoka' is cast in the mould of
  • A. a dirge
  • B. a gossip
  • C. an epistle
  • D. a ditty
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This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) Poems of Black Africa and D.I. Nwoga (ed.) West African Verse.
As suggested in Agostinho Neto's 'Night', the problems the problem of the blackman today drive mostly from
  • A. the persistance of a superstitious life style that creates only mystery and terror in an otherwise englightened world
  • B. a fate that made his skin colour indentical to that of night
  • C. the lack of a clear sense of direction coupled with years of oppression that weakened his will
  • D. too much haste to catch up with the rest of the world as a result of which the basic structures of development are not being properly laid down
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