CAST Kwame Nkrumah – ex-president of Ghana Ahmed Sedou TOure – President of Guinea Republic Amilcar Cabral – Leader of PAIGE Andree TOure – Wife of President TOure Fode Keita – Artist now Guinea Minister of inferior Nyamikeh – Nephew on the material side to Nkrumah Ambrose Yankey – Chief of the Ghanian security guards…
In literature, “tone” refers to the attitude or emotional disposition of the writer or narrator towards the subject matter or the audience. It is the way the writer conveys their feelings, emotions, and opinions through their writing. Tone is an essential element of literary works as it helps create the overall atmosphere and mood of…
The mirror hanging on the wall, where I sometimes see myself in passing… is a dead pond brought into the house. Corpse of a pond is the mirror: Still, rigid water containing in itself remnants of color, remembrances of the sun, of shadow—movable edges of the horizon burning, passing by in circles, returning, never burning…
In this world where we forget we are shadows of who we are, and the true expressions we form in that other where, souls, we live, are here grimaces and signs. All is night and confusion that exists among us here: projections, smoke scattered from the fire whose glow is hidden when we look at…
BEFORE YOU, mother Idoto*,Naked I stand;Before your watery presence,A prodigalLeaning on an oilbean,Lost in your legend.Under your power wait Ion barefoot,watchman for the watchwordat Heavensgate;out of the depths my cry:give ear and hearken… DARK WATERS of the beginning.Rays, violet and short, piercing the gloom,Foreshadow the fire that is dreamed of.Rainbow on far side, arched like…
What is simile? A simile is a figure of speech used in language to make a comparison between two different things, ideas, or concepts. It is often used to create vivid imagery or to help the reader or listener better understand the characteristics of one thing by likening it to something else. Similes typically use…
The wind howls, the trees sway,The loose house tops sheets clatter and clang,The open window shuts with a bang,And the sky makes night of day Helter-skelter the parents runPressed with a thousand minor cares,‘Hey you there! Pack the household waresAnd where on earth’s my son?’ Home skip the little children.‘Where have you been you naughty…
Background of the poet Oswald Mbuyiseni Mtshali, (born 1940, Vryheid, Natal, South Africa), South African poet who wrote in English and Zulu and whose work drew deeply upon the immediate experience of life in the Johannesburg township of Soweto. Mtshali worked as a messenger before his first collection of poems, Sounds of a Cowhide Drum (1971), won the Olive…
I am Eratosthenes’ heir — the librarianwho measured earth. He took an obelisk,a well, the sun, and made a triangle:geometry, simple and accurate. A cartographer of sorts — I measureearth with words. I have drawn roadsand made them impassable. I have laidrailroad tracks to serve as escaperoutes. I have surveyed rivers andseas by touch and taste….
Wake before the dawn and you will witness the World’s slowest embrace The moon and sun hold hands distant lovers sharing space. Hues of violet and amber spill over the horizon. The morning is a reminder that even though the night is full of terrors, dark will always give way to dawn.