Analysing the poem: When the first slave was brought to the Cape by Shabbir Banoobhai
“In South Africa poetry has offered a ringing voice at a time of enforced silence, and vision of presence and complexity at a time when even the humanity of black people was denied. Poets tell the secret histories of what happens in plain sight, and give voice to what is suppressed. They register munite shifts in the air in an era, and translate the orders of consciousness and the body into the delicate, powerful material of words” (GabebaBaderoon, 2005: 9).
With the statement above poetry is definitely a form of a 'voice' where there are enforced silence. People can express their feelings and why of thinking through poetry. They can write what they feel. Especially those people whose voice are always silenced. This poem are going to be analysed in a written form. In this poem the slave finally has a voice to speak what he feels and had to keep for himself but through this poem he can express himself and that his voice can be heard.
When the first slave was brought to the cape by Shabbir Banoobhai,year is about a muslim slave who was brought from Indonesia to the Cape. When the Dutch first occupied the Cape in the 17th century, they brought muslim slaves. When the first colonialism began, the slavery and forced labour was implemented. The Dutch had …show more content…
Even children younger than me has to work as slaves just to provide for their families. Slavery cannot be forgotten and seems that somehow the history of slavery in South Africa is transforming the way that we live. It is just that our lack of attention to slavery prevents us from understanding a foundational time in our history. Once we look closely at the landscape of the country and listen to the people who live there, we would see the inward and outward signs of slavery’s legacy
“In South Africa poetry has offered a ringing voice at a time of enforced silence, and vision of presence and complexity at a time when even the humanity of black people was denied. Poets tell the secret histories of what happens in plain sight, and give voice to what is suppressed. They register munite shifts in the air in an era, and translate the orders of consciousness and the body into the delicate, powerful material of words” (GabebaBaderoon, 2005: 9).
With the statement above poetry is definitely a form of a 'voice' where there are enforced silence. People can express their feelings and why of thinking through poetry. They can write what they feel. Especially those people whose voice are always silenced. This poem are going to be analysed in a written form. In this poem the slave finally has a voice to speak what he feels and had to keep for himself but through this poem he can express himself and that his voice can be heard.
When the first slave was brought to the cape by Shabbir Banoobhai,year is about a muslim slave who was brought from Indonesia to the Cape. When the Dutch first occupied the Cape in the 17th century, they brought muslim slaves. When the first colonialism began, the slavery and forced labour was implemented. The Dutch had …show more content…
Even children younger than me has to work as slaves just to provide for their families. Slavery cannot be forgotten and seems that somehow the history of slavery in South Africa is transforming the way that we live. It is just that our lack of attention to slavery prevents us from understanding a foundational time in our history. Once we look closely at the landscape of the country and listen to the people who live there, we would see the inward and outward signs of slavery’s legacy