African poems

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\"Refugee Mother and Son\" is a powerful poem by Chinua Achebe that explores the devastating impact of war on families and the human cost of displacement. The poem portrays the bond between a mother and her son as they struggle to survive in a refugee camp.

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Vocal Characteristics

Language

English

Voice Age

Young Adult (18-35)

Accents

African (General)

Transcript

Note: Transcripts are generated using speech recognition software and may contain errors.
No, Madonna and child could touch her tenderness for a song. She soon would have to forget the air was heavy with odors of diarrhea. Everyone washed Children with washed out ribs and dried up bottoms, waddling in labeled steps behind blown empty bellies. Most mothers there have long ceased to care but not this one. She held a ghost smile between her teeth and in her eyes, the memory of a mother's pride. She had baited him and dropped him down with bare palms. She took from the bundle of their possessions, a broken comb and combed the rust colored hair left on his call and then homing in her eyes began carefully to put it in their formal life. This was perhaps a little daily act of no consequence before breakfast and school. Now she did it like putting flowers on a tiny grave.