Crick Crack

The most thought provoking read from the selection was “Crick Crack” by Merle Collins. Interweaved within her poem are lessons- from those lessons the reader is afforded the opportunity to learn from Collins. Collins alludes to the history of Africa in the final stanza of her poem with “until lions have their own historians, they say, tales of hunting will always glorify the hunter.” This is true in a since that when a person does not know their history they are targets of misinformation. Often we take the history that has been narrated to us and do little questioning. For example, Europeans came to Africa and called themselves colonizers and tried to erase African history and rewrite a story that we did not author- they try to make us believe