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Who, among the following, raises the following painful question of longing and belonging ? “Where shall…

Derek Walcott asks this question in A Far Cry from Africa, confronting mixed inheritance and love of English. Louise Bennett, Kamau Brathwaite and Wole Soyinka are not its…

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Who, among the following, raises the following painful question of longing and belonging ?
“Where shall I turn, divided to the vein ?
I who have cursed
The drunken officer of British rule, how choose
Between this Africa and the English tongue I love ?”

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Derek Walcott asks this question in A Far Cry from Africa, confronting mixed inheritance and love of English. Louise Bennett, Kamau Brathwaite and Wole Soyinka are not its author.

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