AFRICA – KCSE ENGLISH POETRY QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

​Read the poem below and then answer the question that follow.
Africa my Africa 
Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral savannah’s
Africa my grandmother sings of 
Beside her distant river
I have never seen you.

But my gaze is full of your blood.
Your black spilt over the field.
The blood of your sweat
The sweat of your toil
The toil of slavery
The slavery of your children.
Africa, tell me Africa,
Are you the back that bends.
Lies down under the weight of humbleness?
The trembling back stripped red.

That says yes to the whips on the road of noon?
Solemnly a voice answers me
“Impetuous child, that young and sturdy tree.
That tree that grows.
There splendidly alone among white and faded flowers.
Is Africa, your Africa. It puts forth new shoots.
With patience and stubbornness pouts forth news shoots.
Slowly its fruits grow to have 
That bitter taste of freedom. 

QUESTIONS

• 1. Who is the persona 2mks
• 2. What is the message of the poem? 3mks
• 3. Identify any three stylistic devices used in the poem. 6mks
• 4. What is the tone of the poem? 3mks
• 5. From the above poem, explain the meaning of the following lines?
  • a)’ But the gaze is full of your blood. Your blood spilt over the field.’ 1mk
  • b)’ Africa, my Africa
• Africa of proud warriors in the ancestral Savannah’ 1mk
• 6. But my gaze is full of your blood. 1mk
  (Add an appropriate question tag)
• 7. What is the meaning of the following words? 3mks
  • i) Solemnly
  • ii) Sturdy 
  • iii) Toil