Analysis Of Vanity By Birago Diop

Birago Diop is one among the poets of culture. The following poems of his_ Vanity, Breath, etc. are prove of his love for African customs and norms. He was a Senegalese poet of African folktales and folklores who lived between 11 December 1906 and 25 November 1989. Till this day, his name has never been undermined when mentioning the pioneer figures of the Négritude literary movement.As a faithful steward of African tutelage, Birago Diop understood...

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Breaths By Birago Diop

Listen more often to things rather than beings.Hear the fire's voice,Hear the voice of the water.In the wind hear the sobbing of the trees,It is our forefathers breathing.The dead are not gone for ever.They are in the paling shadows,And in the darkening shadows.The dead are not beneath the ground, They are in the rustling tree,In the murmuring wood,In the flowing water,In the still water,In the lonely place, in the crowd;The dead are not deadListen...

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