EXPOSING GHANA (Poem) (original) (raw)

2020

This poem gives a vivid description of Ghana on its culture, food, people, and geographic area. This poem adopts a rhythmic ending (AABABC) for the first stanza, a descriptive-narrative style for the second and third stanza, and a free verse form for the fourth stanza. This poem follows no rule because of the genre it falls under and adapts a newly artistic style through the writers’ perspective.

The Haunting Images of the West in Contemporary Ghanaian Poetry

2016

Many literary artists and critics in time past have affirmed the significance of tradition as a source of inspiration in creative works. Though the driving force in molding a creative work such as a poem is innate, a true artist must have knowledge of a given tradition or traditions to excel in the enterprise. In quite recent times however, much of the poetry by budding poets tends to imitate Western forms in lieu of the traditional. This paper is therefore an attempt to address the effects of foreign traditions on the creative abilities of the Ghanaian youth. It traces the antecedents that are most likely to have caused the negative outlook towards most indigenous traditions in Ghana to the embrace of Western traditions. It also examines some pertinent issues in the educational system in Ghana and the impact of the English language as the language of instruction and its effects on the culture of the creative arts.

CORPUS: GHANA MUST GO TOPIC: A READING OF CONFLICTS IN GHANA MUST GO

The study of conflicts in African migrant literature requires a critical analysis of the narrative used to represent struggles, obstacles in the text. Selasi is so aware that her narration makes the portrayal of rivalry between characters, psychological troubles and rejection of identity that are indicative of the presence of conflicts in her Ghana Must Go. Thus, if the depiction of conflicts through the use of indicators of struggle show the manifestation of oppositions in the novel, we should also notice that these conflicts are physical as well as mental.

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