Read and detect the manifestations of Environmental justice and ecological activism in Different Shades of Green by Caminero Santangelo. Read and detect multi-faceted environmental issues in Tanure Ojaide’s poems from The Tale of the Harmattan: The two poems to study and analyze are “The goat song” (Harmattan 10-12); “Priests, converts, and gods” (Harmattan 13-14). Look for irony, satire, sarcasm and folkloric devices Ojaide uses in the poems as literary devices or poetic outlets to convey his minority discourse message on the natural environment as a living entity through the exegetic strategy of personification. Write two and half-page essay, a critical and analytical synopsis on Different Shades of Green and frame two personal concepts of violence in alignment with any of the multiple concepts of violence defined in the text. Your work will continue and include the analysis of Ojaide’s two poems, which present issues of the natural environment in Niger Delta of Nigeria and critical socio-political interests commensurate with them. Santangelo and Ojaide’s texts present environmental critical problems at the core of our Course course objectives.
