Persona in I speak for the bush poem
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The persona in the poem is the poet himself who stands as a synecdoche for the ‘Bushmen’, a tribe of Africa.
EXPLANATION:
Prof Everett Maraka Standa is the poet of the poem ‘I speak for the bush’. Through the poet-persona the poet asserts his views on being a bushman from Africa.
The western world treats Africa as an uncivilised nation. According to them all Africans are barbarians who are demon-like in looks and habits. Their life-style is like heathens and they live in a beastly fashion.
The persona however deconstructs these discrimination by inverting their meanings. According to him the people of the Bush are far better off than the so-called civilised world. They are simple folks who believe in living life peacefully and without discrimination.
Their religion doesn’t teach them to hate and kill others. So the persona states that he speaks for all the people of the bush as their representative not just the poet himself.