Indledning
Africa under siege is a prose poem by Keith Phetlhe. The poem doesn’t have the same breaks as a traditional poem and uses other literary techniques which is why it’s a prose poem.
The poem Africa under siege is published on the webpage poetrysoup.com by Keith Phetlhe in February 2018. The poem is about Africa at the time it was colonized by Britain, and the negative effect the colonization had on the continent.
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Uddrag
Almost every sentence is a metaphor. a few examples are “Africa is raped” and “we remain cocooned in a mask” and “you were chopped and divided by colonial borders, by colonial masters”.
All these metaphors help to create a feeling or a mood in the text, and sometimes you’ll have to think twice of the meaning with these metaphors.
“Africa is raped” doesn’t mean that the continent has been sexually abused, which isn’t possible anyway. What’s meant is that Africa is ruined after the colonization by the British imperialists, and they weren’t able to do anything about it.
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