The Awakening Age By: Ben Okri : Summary and Exercises
The Awakening Age By: Ben Okri 1. Awaking ---- What is it ? Awaking is the act of waking up from sleep. It also refers to a new or sudden consciousness. Any time you realize or accept something important and life changing, it can be called an 'awaking'. 2. The Awakening Age : Title Justification Ben Okri is a Nigerian poet. In this poem the poet communicates with his country people by addressing them directly. The Nigerians have suffered a lot in the age long slavery imposed upon them by their white rulers. Furthermore, the three years of devastating civil war smashed their lives into pieces. They are in the mud of poverty, misery, uneducatedness, despair and segmentation. Here the speaker presents a new vision for the betterment of his countrymen where there will be hopes, glory, joy, unity, and harmony. That is, they have to enter into an age of awakening. The awakening age is a new age/era of enlightenment where a new new world is reign...