Separation from Africa
It is no secret that African people have received harsh mistreatment. Why did Europeans treat African people that way? Are they not humans like them? Europeans colonized and enslaved the people in Africa in such a long period of time. They took away the chance of these people to live peacefully. African people experienced ill sufferings throughout the history and because of that their culture had been discarded. That is why an African writer, Bernard Dadie, reflects his poem "Dry your Tears Africa" to a movement that will instill the pride of Africans to their very own culture. He mentioned in his poem the 'fruitless journey" African people experienced. It means that they got nothing from the journey they took.
"Journey", on the other hand implies to African people who turned away from their native culture. This journey is a figurative journey which means that they are psychologically separated from Africa specifically their minds and thoughts. It has been a psychological separation from Africa where African people neglected their very own culture.
Here is the poem of Bernard Dadie:
Dry your tears, Africa!
Your Children come back to you
Out of the storm and squalls of fruitless journeys
Through the crest of the waves and the bubbling of the breeze,
Over the gold of the East
and the Purple of the setting Sun,
the peaks of the proud mountains
and the grasslands drenched with light
They return to you
out of the storm and squalls of fruitless journeys
Dry your tears, Africa!
We have drunk
From all the springs of ill fortune and of glory
And our senses are now opened
To the splendour of your beauty
To the smell of your forests
To the charm of your waters
To the clearness of your skies
To the cares of your sun
And to the charm of your foliage pearled by the dew
Dry your tears, Africa!
Your children come back to you
Their hand full of playthings
And their heart full of love
They return to clothe you
In their dreams in their hopes
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