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    Analysis of Echoes by Kundi Faraja

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    The poem explores the mistreatment and oppression of women in society. It acknowledges guilt in regarding women as property for sexual pleasure and childbearing, rather than individuals with their own rights and agency. Women are portrayed as having few opportunities and narrow roles prescribed to them in the home, kitchen, and church. The nation and church are also said to be guilty of denying women equal chances in education and professional roles. Overall, the poem criticizes how women have been exploited and discriminated against through practices like paying a bride price, inequality in schooling, and exclusion from positions of leadership and worship.

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    The poem explores the mistreatment and oppression of women in society. It acknowledges guilt in regarding women as property for sexual pleasure and childbearing, rather than individuals with their own rights and agency. Women are portrayed as having few opportunities and narrow roles prescribed to them in the home, kitchen, and church. The nation and church are also said to be guilty of denying women equal chances in education and professional roles. Overall, the poem criticizes how women have been exploited and discriminated against through practices like paying a bride price, inequality in schooling, and exclusion from positions of leadership and worship.

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    The poem explores the mistreatment and oppression of women in society. It acknowledges guilt in regarding women as property for sexual pleasure and childbearing, rather than individuals with their own rights and agency. Women are portrayed as having few opportunities and narrow roles prescribed to them in the home, kitchen, and church. The nation and church are also said to be guilty of denying women equal chances in education and professional roles. Overall, the poem criticizes how women have been exploited and discriminated against through practices like paying a bride price, inequality in schooling, and exclusion from positions of leadership and worship.

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    Analysis of Echoes by Kundi Faraja

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    The poem explores the mistreatment and oppression of women in society. It acknowledges guilt in regarding women as property for sexual pleasure and childbearing, rather than individuals with their own rights and agency. Women are portrayed as having few opportunities and narrow roles prescribed to them in the home, kitchen, and church. The nation and church are also said to be guilty of denying women equal chances in education and professional roles. Overall, the poem criticizes how women have been exploited and discriminated against through practices like paying a bride price, inequality in schooling, and exclusion from positions of leadership and worship.

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    Echoes by Kundi Faraja

    Me,
    I plead guilty
    That my woman is a tool
    To fulfil my sexual desires,
    That shes the source of sensual pleasure.
    A garden
    Where I plant my deeds
    So as to get children
    Which are mine
    And not hers,
    I plead guilty
    That I have regarded my woman
    As my property,
    Because I paid the bride price
    To her parents.
    What did her parents think
    When they demanded
    The cows
    The tanks of beer,
    The goats,
    The money
    They knew
    That they were making wealth out of me
    Because their girl would work for me
    Just like a slave
    I plead guilty
    That I have inherited the stupidity
    Of my slavery age parents,
    That I have prolonged inequality.
    That I have continued oppression.
    Though unknowingly.
    I am guilty
    For dominating
    My woman.
    My nation pleads guilty
    That it has shut an eye
    To the rights of women,
    That it has kept women
    In the kitchen,
    In the church,
    And at home
    To look after the children.
    My nation plead guilty
    That it has given little room
    To the she sex,
    That the number of girls at school
    Has always been smaller
    Than that of boys.

    My nation pleads guilty


    That it has always given a narrow chance
    For women to become teachers,
    Physicians,
    Scientists,
    Leader of state
    And public organisations,
    That their percentage
    Has always been meager.
    My church is guilty
    That it has declared women
    Unholy,
    Unsatisfied,
    Ungifted to God,
    And that it has confined the alter work
    To the blessed men,
    To the chosen men,
    The gifted men,
    Though its nowhere written in the Gospel
    That women shouldnt be priests.
    THEMES
    Role of women
    They are regarded as instrument of sexual pleasure.
    She is the source of sensual pleasure.
    They are regarded as a tool for bearing children
    They are portrayed to have no rights to the children
    they bore and property inheritance
    They are regarded as like other commodities of
    trade. They are regarded as property because his
    husband paid the high bride price and her parents
    making wealth from her husband.
    They are regarded as the most exploited by their
    husband.
    They are employed as cheap labour
    The work in domestic chores. They work in kitchen
    They are children caring
    African culture
    Paying of bride price is one of traditional practices.
    The bride price is paid in terms of cows, tanks of
    beers, goats and money.
    Employment
    Some people are employed as cheap labour. They
    work as slaves for their husband
    Some people are employed in professional work
    Some people are employed in unprofessional work
    Some people are employed in permanent work
    Exploitation
    Slavery is practised to women by their husbands
    Some people are work as cheap labour

    Discrimination
    Inequality is mostly practised to women
    Injustices
    Exploitation
    Oppression
    Discrimination
    Girls are not given equal chance with boys in
    attending formal school.The number of girls is
    smaller than of boys
    Domination
    LANGUAGE
    A poet uses simple language with a slight figures
    of speech
    A poet uses his poetic licence well by employing
    capital letters at the beginning of every verses and
    for not using question mark for the verses that ask
    questions.
    A poet uses figures of speech such as metaphor and
    simile

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