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"Telephone conversation" by Wole Soyinka and "You will be hearing from us shortly" by U A Fanthropeboth deal with discrimination. Compare and contrast the ways each poem deals with this issue.
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... "Telephone conversation" by Wole Soyinka and "You will be hearing from us shortly" by U A Fanthrope both deal with discrimination. Compare and contrast the ways each poem deals with this issue. In this essay, the two poems that will be discussed are "You will be hearing from us shortly" and "Telephone conversation". "You will be hearing from us shortly" is by U A Fanthrope and "Telephone conversation" is by Wole Soyinka. Wole Soyinka was educated at the University if Ibadan and at the University of Leeds in Great Britain. He became the first African and the first black writer to win a Nobel in literature. U A Fanthrope was born in London and educated at Oxford and became Head of English at the Cheltenham Ladies College for some years. Both poems are based on the theme discrimination but they discuss different types of this issue. "You will be hearing
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