A Passage To Africa

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Louis MacNeice poems Love; Sonnet 116; Shakespeare's Sonnets; analysis; Poetry analysis; marriage; navigation; loved ones dying. However, viewed now, almost twenty years on, this is an insightful historical and contextual reference for anyone interested in African affairs. A Passage to Africa is Alagiah’s shattering catalogue of atrocities crafted into a portrait of Africa that is infused with hope, insight and outrage. George then carries on to talk about how the people also suffer from shame about their predicament, at the sight of these healthy reporters some cover their faces or go deeper into the darkness of their rooms.

Archaeological evidence shows that ram cults held a great amount of importance for the Nubians prior to the Egyptian defeat.

The repetition of 'smile' in these paragraphs shows his fascination with it, then when his translator explains the smile it is revealed that smile was an 'apology' for being in such a bad conditions, as though 'you had done something wrong. This simultaneous degradation of the village people and elevation of the journalists is ironical as it proves that in the author’s mind it is the village people who are above them as he views himself as nothing more than a relentless animalistic hunter who is following a trail. In the paragraph with the old woman, Alagiah uses visceral sensory language about the ‘ smell ’ of ‘ decaying flesh ’ and the ‘ festering wound ’ – the ‘ putrid air ’ of decay.

Towards the end of the 19th century, European nations started claiming territory in Africa due to the fast paced manufacturing and the need for more materials to keep up with production. While recounting the case of Amina, the use of her name make the readers more affected by her plight, the name reminding the readers, that this is a story of a person, with feelings and pain just like everyone else. Language has the power to stop wars, to solve conflicts; however, perhaps one of the most important forces of language is the power to create emotion, to create meaning.Both characters are lonely and the portrayal of this loneliness causes you – the reader - to feel sympathetic towards them.