Dead bodies
This is an important case of the imagery of the destruction during the civil war. It is interesting to note that all victims and victimized are staying in a same village in both condition dead and alive. Those dead bodies are the villagers and soldiers who can not survived during or after the war. They are all neighbors. Villagers can identify some of the bodies and buries them otherwise moves those bodies outside the village.
Mines
Some white settlers with the help of central government start a business of mining, especially of diamonds. All the villagers including children are working as a labor. It is another form of domination. It is not only the mining of African soil but also the mining of black African respect.
Description of the village
From the very beginning the description of the abandoned village, Imperi is very delicate. When Mama Kadie first comes she can feel the native soil and breeze. Words like “the trees had entangled one another”,”starvation for the warmth of bare feet”, “Like snakes, the paths were now ready to shed their old skins for new ones”, “the sporadic breath of the wind fanned into the air” are enough to move the reader.
Radiance of tomorrow
The title itself is an instance of imagery. Black African native villagers are tortured again and again, but they find some consolations from their native soil.They wish to live their very peacefully, they have to take some violent steps if necessary; but from their heart they are very hopeful for their bright future. They are looking forward to the ‘radiance of tomorrow’.
