This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa,...

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JAMB 1993

This question is based on selected poems from Wole Soyinka (ed.) poems of Black Africa, E.K. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.) Selection of African poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.) A Pageant of Longer Poems.

'But even he who sharpened the edge of hearts

Conceived new truths.

Telling us that truth is not truth of swords

But the long buds growing from the ruins.'

These lines suggest to us that Langula in Mazisi Kunene's To the Soldier Hero', was more interested in

  • A. warfare
  • B. life
  • C. bloodshed
  • D. conquest

Correct Answer: C. bloodshed



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