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The Congo Stage Choral Performance Grade 7

It is impossible to know definitively what Lindsay's purpose was, but by analyzing the poem's content and style it is possible to develop some informed claims. Lindsay's purpose could be said to follow the trajectory of African and African American lives from pre-colonialism to post-colonialism. In terms of style, Lindsay was interested in sound and rhythm, perhaps in the service of evoking the sounds of African culture. Lindsay exploited end rhyme (boom/room, vision/derision, yell/hell), onomatopoeia (boom), and repetition (Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you/Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you/Mumbo-Jumbo will hoo-doo you) to evoke the sounds of indigenous chanting and drumming. References to the crimes of Leopold II, the late nineteenth-century Belgian king who created the Congo Free State, suggest a purpose of recalling the exploitation of the Congolese and the hope that he is paying for his sins in the afterlife. The end of the poem suggests that Congolese culture was all but supplanted by Christian interlopers who worked to ensure that "Mumbo-Jumbo is dead in the jungle. Never again will he hoo-doo you." Whether that is true or not is left to interpretation, as a vulture is left behind to remember and cry the Congo's tune: "Mumbo . . . Jumbo . . . will . . . hoo-doo . . . you.” Overall, Lindsay's speaker observes that imperialism has a long history of all but eradicating native people and their lifeways https://www.bartleby.com/265/193.html