THE POET Birago Diop: He was born in 1906 at Dakar‚ Senegal. He was educated in Senegal and in France where in qualifed in veterinary surgeon. VANITY is one of his many poems he used in expressing the presence of the ancestor. THE POEM VANITY If we tell‚ gently‚ gently All that we shall one day have to tell‚ Who then will hear our voices without laughter‚ Sad complaining voices of beggars 5 Who indeed will hear them without laughter? If we roughly of our torments Ever increasing
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Birago Diop’s “The Humps” Folk tales have served an important role in in the different cultures of human beings. They can be seen as a form of knowledge and education‚ as their ending morals influence a person’s attitude and behavior. In addition to acting as a moral guidebook‚ folk tales offer explanations of events or phenomena that cannot be explained through basic means. While Birago Diop’s African folk tale‚ “The Humps”‚ still offers a moral for people in the end‚ the folk tale focuses
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Name: Tashnia Ahmed Course: Art Appreciation Instructor: Ms. A. Miller Date: 04/01/13 Julie Mehretu’s Stadia II Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Ethiopia. The University Cheikh Anta Diop is where she was a student and she got her MFA from Rhode Island School of Design in the year of 1997. Renegade Delirium‚ another famous artwork by Julie Mehretu displays the fact that she is an abstract artist. In 2004‚ Mehretu articulately created the painting that was named “Stadia II”. As soon as my
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Africa‚ by David Diop David Mandessi Diop (19271960) was a revolutionary African poet born in France but with parents of West African descent. His poems highlighted problems of Africa brought about by colonialism and gave a message to Africans to bring about change and freedom. He was known for his involvement in the negritude movement in France‚ a movement started by Black writers and artists protesting against French colonialism and its effects of African culture and values. His views and feelings
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9. Economic disparities in newly independent countries 10. Rights and roles of women IV. PROMINENT WORKS AND POETS Pre-Colonial Era 1. The epic of Sundiata Colonial Era 1. Prayer to the Masks ~ Leopold Sedar Senghor 2. Spirits ~ Birago Diop Post-Colonial African Literature 1. Abiku ~ Wole
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interfere In my affairs As if they were yours And you were me. You are unfair‚ unwise‚ Foolish to think That I can be you‚ Talk‚ act And think like you. God made me me. He made you you. For God’s sake Let me be me. Breaths Birago Diop Listen more often to things rather than beings. Hear the fire’s voice‚ Hear the voice of water. In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees‚ It is our forefathers breathing. The dead are not gone forever. They are in the paling shadows
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Murambi‚ The Book of Bones by Boubacar Boris Diop is a historical fiction that powerfully calls upon readers to fight their ignorance of the Rwandan genocide. Diop generates empathy using fictional characters’ experiences in the Rwandan genocide to show the nature of tragedy while also providing an accurate history of the genocide. The novel calls upon readers to resist their urge to be complacent and to bring light to a tragedy that is too often ignored or skewed‚ especially by Western nations.
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The poem "Africa" reflects the poet’s vision of an independent and sovereign Africa. Diop was strongly critical of Europe and denounced colonialism to the hilt especially during the Second World War when Africans fought and died for the sake of the Europeans. Diop voices his angst about the exploitation of Africa by the colonisers through this poem specially in the moving description of Africa during colonization. The glorious‚ pre-colonial Africa is no longer the present Africa. The lingering memories
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Controversies in African History In 1871‚ Charles Darwin suggested that Africa was the birth place of humankind. This statement ignited great controversy within Europe. Most of Europe withheld Protestant beliefs‚ believing that human races were separately created. They believed in Adam and Eve and completely disregarding the theory behind evolution. Because many Europeans did not want to accept that their ancestors came from Africa‚ the idea of the Africa cradle of human kind was easily a racial
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Bibliography: Asante‚ Molefi Kete. Cheikh Anta Diop: An Intellectual Portrait. University of Sankore Press‚ 2007. —. Maulana Karenga: An Intellectual Portrait. Polity‚ 2009. Bacon‚ Jacqueline. Freedom ’s Journal: The First African-American Newspaper. Lexington Books‚ 2007. Bradley‚ Michael. Iceman Inheritance:
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