The African Literature

1. Hina Chauhan
M.A. Sem-4
Dept.Of English MKBU
Mystic Drum

2. Significance of Drum
 African Culture
Heartbeats of Poetic
Persona.
Beating Drums-Ritualistic-
Mystical Significance
Spiritual Pulse of
Traditional African life.

3. Lady
Standing behind the tree
Outsider
Colonizer
Female of Western world
Beloved of Poetic Persona
Richness of Culture
Colonized Culture

4. Men,women and fishes are
dancing on the beat of Drum.
Connection between Nature and
Humans.
It shows how powerful Mystic
Drum is?
Invokes Sun, The Moon, The River
,God and Trees begun to Dance.

5. When Mystic Drum is beaten Men
turns into Fishes and Fishes turns into
Men; When its stop beating everything
becomes normal.
How the life has became Dry and
Mechanical ?

6. Industrialization
 African culture had been
destroying slowly- Western
people started ruling over Africa
 The smoke from Lady’s lips
suggests Pollution
 Lady as a Personification of
industrialization.