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Teacher's
Notes: Language has the power to create a national
identity and influence the thinking of new generations. Students
explore a collection of poems by post colonial African writers who
reflect on the effects of colonialism and find new ways to 'reclaim the
centre' of their history and their national identity. This unit
introduces students to questions of culture and context and revisits the
language of poetry in ways that take students beyond their borders. For
Australian students there are obvious and confronting parallels to the
colonization of Australia.
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Learning Objectives:
Word documents:
Useful
Links "The Sea
Eats the Land at Home" by
Kofi
Awoornor of
Ghana "The
Vultures" by David
Diop of
Senegal "Fourth
Poem of a Canto of Accusation" by Costa Andrade of
Angola "Poem of
Return" by Jofre Rocha of
Angola "A
Different Poem" by Onesima Silveira of
Cape
Verde Islands "Telephone
Conversation" by
Wole
Soyinka of
West
Nigeria There is also
a very detailed discussion of Post Colonial African Poetry by Wole
Soyinka,
Soyinka
challenges writers in post-colonial Africa, that you
might like to read. It is quite detailed so don't give up too easily.
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help with essays? Look at the Step
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Innovative
Views of the World has links to maps of the world, particularly
Peter's Projection
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