The Breast of the Sea
Syl Cheney-Coker · African poetry — Sierra Leone · WAEC set text 2026–2030
What it is doing
The sea as a body — nurturing and dangerous — tied to the history of a coastal country that has watched ships take people away and bring other things back.
What to listen for
Personification; the sea as mother; history sitting under the lyric.
In the exam
Place (Sierra Leone, the Atlantic) and the slave-trade echo if the question opens that door. Stay with the images first.