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Neocolonial Poems - Poems about Neocolonial


THEY KNOW IT
...I know their fears. I know their cravings. I know their reflexes. I know their thoughts. They know that I know who they are. I am exactly like them, but with a dose of Pan-African melanin. I’ve......

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Categories: neocolonial, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
TO THE VALETS OF FRANCAFRICA
...We are tired of enduring the odious cult paid to the lackeys of Françafrique. This situation is becoming intolerable. It is deeply humiliating to see mediocre and alienated ******* running the ba......

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Categories: neocolonial, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse



FOR CENTURIES
...Africa does not belong to the West. Its raw materials do not belong to the West. The banana republics of French-speaking Africa do not belong to France. African immigration cannot be criminaliz......

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Categories: neocolonial, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
THE CRADLE
...I am a child of war, misery, anger and suffering. I grew up with sadness, uncertainty and anxiety. I took refuge in solitude to avoid human bestiality and its hypocrisy. My distress illuminated......

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Categories: neocolonial, 12th grade, africa, allegory,
Form: Free verse
The System
...In shadows cast by Western might, The System whispers, a colonial blight. 1. Shatter morals, a cultural fray, where heritage falters, lost in dismay. Reduced to echoes of a proud past, ......

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Categories: neocolonial, africa, analogy, black african
Form: Free verse



Premium Member Least We Forget the Girls' Killing Cry
...LEAST WE FORGET THE GIRLS’ KILLING CRY (Apropos The Boko Haram Girls) I no longer hear the screams of the young girls nor the whimpering of their little brothers— only the echoes of falling t......

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Categories: neocolonial, africa, allegory, analogy, gender,
Form: Prose Poetry

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