A Far Cry From Africa By Derek Walcott Deals With The Theme Of Split Identity And Anxiety Caused By It In The Face Of The Struggle In Which The Poet Could Side
The poem A Far Cry from Africa belongs to post colonial poetry Mainly the poem discusses the events of the Mau Mau uprising in Kenya in the early 1950s It was a bloody battle during the 1950 between the European settlers and the native Kikuyu tribes in Kenya Kikuyu was the largest and most educated tribe in KenyaA Far Cry from Africa by Derek Walcott deals with the theme of split identity and anxiety caused by it in the face of the struggle in which the poet could side with neither party It is, in short, about the poets ambivalent feelings towards the Kenyan terrorists and the counterterrorist white colonial government, both of which were 'inhuman', during the independence struggle of the country in
