tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555516329392912719.post6749840096722920474..comments2011-11-13T13:40:29.423ZRob Taylorhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06507320627534702508noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7555516329392912719.post-80493841802764788072011-11-13T13:40:29.423Z2011-11-13T13:40:29.423ZMr Dogbo,<br /><br />I hope you do not take offence if I read your poem differently from what you may have intended, but since today is Remembrance Sunday, I believe it also speaks for the Africans who were recruited for the First &amp; Second World Wars,(both as soldiers and load carriers), a significant number of whom were never to return home. <br /><br />But those who returned, especially after the First World War, did so having lost their fear of the European, and so sowed the seeds for the various independence movements after 1914.<br /><br />Your poem is also poignant because the First World War actually started in Kamina, Togo, and some of the first men to die were Ghanaians sent from the Gold Coast to attack the German Radio Transmitting Station at Kamina. They were really our first heroes who paved the way for an independent Ghana, and they have mostly been forgotten.<br /><br /> <br />Cheers, and have a great Remembrance Sunday.LSnoreply@blogger.com