“Your Pain” by Armando Guebuza – Analysis & Summary YOUR PAIN By Armando Guebuza Your pain Yet more my pain Shall suffocate oppression Your eyes Yet more my eyes Shall be speaking of revolt Your scars Yet more my scars Will be remembering the whip My hands Yet more your hands Will be lifted fully armed My strength Yet more your strength

“If We Must Die” by Claude McKay – Analysis & Summary IF WE MUST DIE By Claude McKay If we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs, Making their mock at our accursèd lot. If we must die, O let us nobly die,

“Eat More” by Joe Corrie – Analysis & Summary Anthology Title: Selected Poems Anthology Editor/Compiler: Tanzania Institute of Education Poem Title: Eat More Poet: Joe (Joseph) Corrie Setting: Universal Year of Publication (Anthology): 1996 Publisher: Tanzania Institute of Education Eat More by by Joe Corrie (Scotland) ’Eat more fruit!’ the slogans say, ’ More fish, more beef, more bread!’ But I’m on Unemployment pay My third

“The Awful Dentist” by Jwani Mwaikusa – Analysis & Summary The poem is all about incompetent doctor (dentist) who fails to cure people’s diseases despite being trained as a professional doctor. THE AWFUL DENTIST Jwani Mwaikusa He read medicine Specializing in the tooth, And graduated with honours With new thesis To cure the aching malady. “Our teeth shall be alright!”

“The Dying Child” by Freeman Peter Lwamba – Analysis & Summary THE DYING CHILD By Freeman Peter Lwamba Thin and red, Skinny and bald, The boy groans on the ground. Swollen stomach Full of waste, Thin legs, Thin arms, Twitch As the boy Fights with flies Over the empty plate. Ten years old, He looks older than ten, And younger than young,

“Africa” by David Diop – Analysis & Summary AFRICA (BY David Diop (Senegal) Africa my Africa Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral savannahs Africa of whom my grandmother sings On the banks of the distant river I have never known you But your blood flows in my veins Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields The blood of your sweat

“A Freedom Song” by Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye – Analysis & Summary Poem Analysis: A Freedom Song By Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye Atieno washes dishes, Atieno plucks the chicken, Atieno gets up early Beds her sacks down in the kitchen, Atieno eight years old Atieno yo. Since she is my sister’s child Atieno needs no pay, While she works my wife can

“Building the Nation” by Henry Barlow – Analysis & Summary (By Henry Barlow) “Today I did my share In building the nation. I drove the permanent secretary To an important urgent function In fact to a luncheon at the Vic. The menu reflected its importance Cold Bell beer with small talk, Then fried chicken with niceties Wine to fill the

“Your Pain” by Armando Guebuza – Analysis & Summary YOUR PAIN By Armando Guebuza Your pain Yet more my pain Shall suffocate oppression Your eyes Yet more my eyes Shall be speaking of revolt Your scars Yet more my scars Will be remembering the whip My hands Yet more your hands Will be lifted fully armed My strength Yet more your strength

Eat More by Joe Corrie – Analysis & Summary Anthology Title: Selected Poems Join WhatsApp Group Anthology Editor/Compiler: Tanzania Institute of Education Poem Title: Eat More Poet: Joe (Joseph) Corrie Setting: Universal Year of Publication (Anthology): 1996 Publisher: Tanzania Institute of Education Eat More by by Joe Corrie (Scotland) ’Eat more fruit!’ the slogans say, ’ More fish, more beef, more bread!’ But I’m on Unemployment