Aufgabe HT 1 - 3.1 · Abitur NRW Englisch LK · Haupttermin 2021

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Osayande Igbinedion

AFRICA

Osayande Igbinedion is a male poet from Nigeria.

Africa, my Africa,

Africa my motherland,

Africa the land of the black race,

Torn in a conflict

5 Africa of high and low lands,

Africa of thick forest and shrubs,

Africa in which abound many rivers,

And natural wealth

Bountiful and splendid

10 Africa, my Africa,

A race struggling within

For a place in the sky;

Wither do you go now?

When the white race

15 Had lunged upon you

A cloud overshadowed you,

In a wave of cultures

Like the mighty roars of the Atlantic

Across the beaches of Lagos.

20 You were torn apart,

Body and soul,

In bits of disgusting rags...

When believers and ministers of imported religions

Go back to their African roots

25 You are an edifice of tattered cloths

When teachers and students of white knowledge

Go up and down in the mystery of the same

You are an effigy of the past.

When the series of the western trials

30 Have failed us as we have failed them.

You are in chaos.

When orthodox medicine swallowed tradomedics

Struggling to re-emerge.

You strangulate between them.

35 When laws are turned upside down

And jungle justice and witchcraft reign.

You too are turned to rags

Metaphysical science still

Has a place in our wars.

40 When tradition goes on

In the presence of a foreign marriage.

You are in a great confusion.

Africa, my Africa,

Africa, my fatherland,

45 Africa of past proud warriors,

Africa then and now,

Africa of the black race,

Torn in conflict

Knowing not how to mend the rags.

50 And now, arise, Africa!

Wake up from your slumber, Africa!

You either be up or down the ladder

The present midway takes your breath.

Annotation:

32 tradomedics – traditional medicine

3.1 Assess to what extent Igbinedion's poem can be regarded as a comment on the social and political situation in Nigeria at present. (Evaluation: comment) (14 Punkte)