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    This document provides context about the poem "Another World" by Nigerian poet Rasaq Malik. The poem expresses a father's wish to raise his children peacefully in a world without violence. It describes how in his current world, he mourns children who return home as bodies and tells them stories of their hometown where people search desperately for shelter as aliens in their own land. The poem contrasts this with the father's desire, in another world, to watch his children play freely without fear of walls being torn by rifles, being hunted, or mobbed to death. He wants them to experience the simple joys of childhood like taming grasshoppers, playing with dolls, smelling flowers, and watching

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    This document provides context about the poem "Another World" by Nigerian poet Rasaq Malik. The poem expresses a father's wish to raise his children peacefully in a world without violence. It describes how in his current world, he mourns children who return home as bodies and tells them stories of their hometown where people search desperately for shelter as aliens in their own land. The poem contrasts this with the father's desire, in another world, to watch his children play freely without fear of walls being torn by rifles, being hunted, or mobbed to death. He wants them to experience the simple joys of childhood like taming grasshoppers, playing with dolls, smelling flowers, and watching

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    This document provides context about the poem "Another World" by Nigerian poet Rasaq Malik. The poem expresses a father's wish to raise his children peacefully in a world without violence. It describes how in his current world, he mourns children who return home as bodies and tells them stories of their hometown where people search desperately for shelter as aliens in their own land. The poem contrasts this with the father's desire, in another world, to watch his children play freely without fear of walls being torn by rifles, being hunted, or mobbed to death. He wants them to experience the simple joys of childhood like taming grasshoppers, playing with dolls, smelling flowers, and watching

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    Lesson 5 African Literature

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    Lesson 5.3.

    AFRICAN LITERATURE

    African literature, literary works of the African continent. African literature consists of a body of work in
    different languages and various genres, ranging from oral literature to literature written in colonial
    languages (French, Portuguese, and English).

    Note: You may also add some information, just get the citation/references.
    (https://africasacountry.com/2020/08/african-literature-is-a-country)

    About the Author

    Rasaq Malik is a graduate of the University of Ibadan, Ibadan, Nigeria. His work has appeared in various
    journals, including Michigan Quaterly Review, Poet Lore, Spillway, Rattle, Juked, Connotation Press,
    Heart Online Journal, Grey sparrow, and Jalada. He is a two-time nominee for Best of the Net
    Nominations, and was among the finalists for the 2015 Best of the Net. Recently, Rattle
    Magazine and Poet Lore nominated his poems for the 2017 Pushcart Prize.

    (Source: https://www.poemhunter.com/rasaq-malik/biography/)

    Another World
    by Rasaq Malik
    In another world I want to be a father without
    passing through the eternal insanity of mourning
    my children, without experiencing the ritual
    of watching my children return home as bodies
    folded like a prayer mat, without spending my
    nights telling them the stories of a hometown
    where natives become aliens searching for
    a shelter. I want my children to spread a mat
    outside my house and play without the walls
    of houses ripped by rifles. I want to watch my children
    grow to recite the name of their homeland like Lord’s
    Prayer, to frolic in the streets without being hunted like
    animals in the bush, without being mobbed to death.
    In another world I want my children to tame grasshoppers
    in the field, to play with their dolls in the living room,
    to inhale the fragrance of flowers waving as wind blows,
    to see the birds measure the sky with their wings.

    (Source: https://peelsofpoetry.tumblr.com/post/177761868529/in-another-world-by-rasaq-malik-in-
    another-world-i)

    Interpreting the Poem (Creative Presentation)


    How do you interpret the text? Write your interpretations of the different lines in the poem.
    Lines Your Interpretation
    In this interpretation this means that it's obvious what
    the Lines meant about a Father who lives in a unresting
    In another world I want to be a father without place; in which the Fathger wish that maybe in another
    passing through the eternal insanity of mourning world he would be given a chance to see His child
    my children, without experiencing the ritual again but not in a place where peace is not visible
    of watching my children return home as bodies within the eyes of individual and a atmosphere where
    folded like a prayer mat, peace cannot be attained.

    So His wishes to see his children one's again living a


    peaceful life without troubles lurking within every
    corners of their surroundings fearing that they're lives
    would be wasted in just a blink of an eye despratly
    trying to survive the harsh Reality of our World Hidden
    within it's deeper roots.

    without spending my
    nights telling them the stories of a hometown
    where natives become aliens searching for
    a shelter.
    I want my children to spread a mat
    outside my house and play without the walls
    of houses ripped by rifles.

    I want to watch my children grow


    to recite the name of their homeland like Lord’s
    Prayer,
    to frolic in the streets without being hunted like
    animals in the bush, without being mobbed to
    death.

    In another world I want my children to tame


    grasshoppers
    in the field, to play with their dolls in the living
    room,
    to inhale the fragrance of flowers waving as wind
    blows,
    to see the birds measure the sky with their wings.

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