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Walcott A Far Cry from Afica

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  In "A Far Cry from Africa", Derek Walcott writes a very painful and harsh
  
  anecdote between ethnic conflicts in South Africa. This story is brought upon by
  
  the Mau Mau Uprising, which is the bloody battle in 1950's between Europeans
  
  settlers and the Kikuyu Tribe. The white settlers came to their region and pushed
  
  the native tribe aside and took control over the government and farmland. Derek
  
  Walcott story rises a very important question in people's minds that is still a huge
  
  issue today: Who is served by Anglophone African literature?
  
       The last stanza in "A Far Cry from Africa", contains judgments among the
  
  Mau Mau Uprising, that ends with controversy. Derek Walcott compares the Mau
  
  Mau Uprising to the Spanish War. At the end of the poem Walcott states that he
  
  is the product of both African and European heritage. This heritage is confusing
  
  because it makes him not know how to feel about the Mau Mau Uprising.
  
  Walcott feels sickening from both sides of his heritage, but gives evidence at the
  
  end of the poem that he will abandon neither heritage because he is both. Line
  
  25 presents a recurring view of the Mau Mau Uprising as just another conflict...