This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.):...
LITERATURE
JAMB 1998
This question is based on selected poems from D. Ker, C. Maduka et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa, Wole Soyinka (ed.): Poems of Black Africa, K.E. Senanu and T. Vincent (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry and E.W. Parker (ed.): A Pageant of Longer Poems.
''They too are the earth
Under snakeskin shoes and Mercedez tyres'.
Niyi Osundare uses the lines above to describe the
- A. material for the shoes of the poor
- B. repulsive snakeskin-like bodies of the poor
- C. hope of the oppressed for a better life
- D. oppression of the dispossessed
Correct Answer: A. material for the shoes of the poor
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