Literature 2009 JAMB Past Questions - Question 24: 'The silence of the battlefield heralds the widow's anguish.' The widow in the lines above in Launko's End of the War is in anguish because of the

based on selected poems from Ker, D. et al (eds.): New Poetry from Africa; Soyinka, W. (ed.): Poems of Black Africa; Senanu, K.E. and Vincent, T. (eds.): A Selection of African Poetry; Umukoro, M. et a! (eds.): Exam Focus; Literature in English; Eruvbetine, A. E. et ai (eds.); Longman Examination Guides; Nwoga, D. i. (ed.); West African Verse and Adeoti G.: Naked Soles.