Similarities Between Cullen And Langston Hughes

Harlem Renaissance Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes works showed that they are nostalgic about Africa, a continent they did not visit, but they were anxious to connect to. In Cullen’s “Heritage”, he sounded like a troubled man that long for to reunite to a long-lost love. His description of Africa was based on what he read or was told about Africa not from his own personal experience. Although he gave a beautiful description of Africa, in the first few lines, by ending the first part of the poem with “What is Africa to me”? showed a man that wanted to connect to his heritage based on the impression he had, but do not know how what the experience will be. The first part of the poem is to ask questions about a troubling issue.
Similarly, Langston Hughes describe a longing for Africa, but
“I built my hut near the Congo” is a testament to the fact that most settlements in Africa are established closed to a river-water source. This is the natural behaviors of African new settlements are being planned. Water is essential for domestic use and for farming purpose during the dry season. Africa usually have two seasons in a year, the rainy season and the dry season. In Africa, if dry seasons if they lasted too long, could lead to drought and famine and that is way settlements in ancient Africa are near rivers and water bodies. “I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. This could be interpreted as hard labor performed by African American during the slavery era. Hughes was also showing similarity between the enslavement of the people of Israel (some historian believed that the people of Israel built most of the pyramids in Egypt when they were enslaved) by the Egyptians as recorded in the bible and the enslavement of Africans. I looked upon the Nile and raised