Young Afrikans
of the furious
Young Afrikans - meaning Summary
Fury Reshapes the Present
The poem addresses young Black people who seize and reshape the present, wrenching established structures into something new. It contrasts inherited cultural rhythms with a jagged, urgent voice and insists that kindness and generosity be vigilant, forceful, and committed. The speaker condemns those who exploit or harm the community and looks toward a hard, collective revival—marked by struggle, sacrifice, and renewed communal energy.
Read Complete AnalysesWho take Today and jerk it out of joint have made new underpinnings and a Head. Blacktime is time for chimeful poemhood but they decree a jagged chiming now. If there are flowers flowers must come out to the road. Rowdy!— knowing where wheels and people are, knowing where whips and screams are, knowing where deaths are, where the kind kills are. As for that other kind of kindness, if there is milk it must be mindful. The milkofhumankindness must be mindful as wily wines. Must be fine fury. Must be mega, must be main. Taking Today (to jerk it out of joint) the hardheroic maim the leechlike-as-usual who use, adhere to, carp, and harm. And they await, across the Changes and the spiraling dead, our Black revival, our Black vinegar, our hands, and our hot blood.
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