An African Thunderstrom

• An African Thunderstorm
• Poet


  David Rubadiri
• Themes


  • Colonialism
  • Symbolism
  • Man vs Nature
  • Social and political turmoil
• "From the west, Clouds come hurrying with the wind": 'Allegory to colonizers invading African villages'
• "Like a plague of locusts whirling": 'Biblical allusion to widespread destruction'
• "In this village, screams of delighted children in the din of the whirling wind": 'Dramatic irony- the children don't see the danger to come'
• Techniques


  • Metaphors
  • Similes
  • Irony
  • Allusion
  • Puns
  • Personification
  • Imagery
• "Clothes like tattered flags flying off": 'Metaphor to women's clothes being torn off'
• "to expose dangling breasts": 'May be symbolic to sexual violence'