New Tongue
Elizabeth L. A. Kamara · African poetry — Sierra Leone · WAEC set text 2026–2030
What it is doing
What happens to a people who pick up a borrowed language and a borrowed culture and glory in the newness. The old tongue, and the self that spoke it, are at risk.
What to listen for
The “new tongue” as metaphor for more than speech; communal voice; the cost hidden inside the glamour of the new.
In the exam
Language and identity. Pair with Okara if the question is on African experience of the West.