Saturday, August 17, 2013

"I'm Not Sorry Any More" a poem written by Kali Vatoko and Albert Leolama is about someone speaking in narration angrily about someone. It explains about what someone (in this poem the other person is anonymous) had done to him which in the context is very traumatic. According to the poem, he was kidnapped from his home and he misses his parents dearly, he is bottled up with anger over the incident just because he was black and the "kidnapper" was white.

The poem deals with the subject of racism, that the black people were taken away and separated from the other people. The use of language "i belong to the land" and "I want to catch you" could also relate to racial segregation issues worldwide, for example, the South African National Party's racial segregation Apartheid from 1948 to 1994, where the black citizens of South Africa were abridged, and the white people remained supreme and the rule of Afrikaans minority was maintained. In this poem, the black person is being segregated by the white supremacy, saying he will fight back, against the rulers, linking to an event such as Apartheid.

1 comment:

  1. Was the narrator 'kidnapped' in the sense we think of in popular culture today? Do you think there might be a metaphor at play here? Interesting points and links to the situation in South Africa. Do you see many examples of racism close to home? Esther :)

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