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A Far Cry From Africa Themes Nature Versus Civilization Throughout the poem, multiple allusions to the dichotomy between the natural world and a more developed, "civilized" world present a complex tension for the speaker to explore While the Kikuyu are a part of the landscape, attached to it by blood, the British colonizers use "statistics to justify and scholars seize" (Line 7 Poetry Analysis Derek Walcott's "A Far Cry from Africa" The West Indies is endowed with a composite culture encompassing mixed population thanks to its geographical position and the indelible impact of colonialisation Therefore, the aborigines of these islands were caught between two worldsthe cultures of Europe and Africa
