"The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down" is a poem by Nigerian writer Gabriel Okara. It contemplates its speaker's feelings on having left Africa and its culture.[1][2] Okara wrote the poem in 1959 after seeing snow for the first time in Evanston, Illinois, while he was studying journalism at Northwestern University and researching at the Atomic Research Station's Public Information Department outside of Chicago.[3][4]
References
edit- ^ Fraser, Robert (4 September 1986). West African Poetry: A Critical History. Cambridge University Press. pp. 196–199. ISBN 978-0-521-31223-3.
- ^ Ngara, Emmanuel (1990). Ideology & Form in African Poetry: Implications for Communication. J. Currey. pp. 49, 53, 58. ISBN 978-0-435-08045-7.
- ^ Ramraj, Victor J. (17 August 2009). Concert of Voices - Second Edition: An Anthology of World Writing in English. Broadview Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-1-55111-977-9.
- ^ King, Bruce (2016). From New National to World Literature: Essays and Reviews. Columbia University Press. p. 153. ISBN 978-3-8382-6856-9.
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