How does Noemia De Sousa's "If you want to know Me" assert the African identity?
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Noemia de Sousa’s poem If You Want To Know Me deals with the sufferings of the Africans in reality. Words such as ‘empty sockets’ describes the eye sockets of the people. Her body is described as blind and her lips are referred to as unreachable.
Words such as a body with wounds, ‘harsh whip-strokes of slavery’ makes it clear the poet completely talks about Africa. Her inside reveals the scars and tortured, but at outside she is well dressed.
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In the poem, "If you want to know me" the poet Noemia De Souza describes the plight of Africans in human society and the fact that they have been tortured and persecuted.
The African identity is all about their history of slavery in the Western world and how they survived it.
This fact is highlighted in the poem to make the reader understand that it is about an African.