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Chinua Achebe Nothing's Changed Poem

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The poems “Nothing’s Changed” by Tatamkhulu Afrika and “Vultures” by Chinua Achebe both tells a story about racism. Both poets wanted to express their displeasures under the injustice and cruel society led by racists. Tatamkhulu Afrika talks about the rampant apartheid system in District Six and scrutinizes the racism. Chinua Achebe talks about his considerations of the coexistence of evil and love through comparison of evil vultures and Nazi commandant.

Tatamkhulu Afrika describes what life was like in District Six near Cape Town in South Africa while apartheid was in place. On his return, he expected to see some changes on racial problems, but nothing seems to be changed. The ironic title ‘Nothing 's changed’ expresses his anger towards racist, especially the whites. Apartheid is the separation of the whites and the nonwhites, and Afrika was not pleased back at his time. He then showed his feelings about this in the poem. Afrika uses a contrast between the prosperity of the whites and the poorness of the nonwhites through details of the restaurants. The restaurant for whites has a sign of ‘whites only inn’, it was placed outside of the restaurant and it was meant for the blacks to see, it helped conveys the feeling of racism, as only white people could afford to go in there.‘Working man’s cafe sells bunny chows’ is another …show more content…

Those people died simply because of their race and skin colour. This helped linking the two poems together as the concentration camp and racism of apartheid both have unnecessary racist acts towards different coloured people, and people with different race. Achebe is disgusted by those who takes part of the apartheid, he dispices racism and he thinks that if evil people display some goodness or kindness, it won’t stop them committing the worst

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