Literature In English Past Questions and Answers

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

'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

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

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

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