Prayer to the Masks | Critical Overview
Critics have tended to discuss Senghor's "Prayer to the Masks" along two lines. It is seen as an assertion of the value of African traditions and the African past, including Senghor's own childhood experience; it has also been discussed as Senghor's most hopeful vision of Africa's potential contribution to a new synthetic, global culture that will supersede colonial domination.
Its assertions of the African's spontaneous joyfulness and his attunement to the rhythm of the land and nature, qualities that Senghor opposes to the coldness and despair of the European, are seen as early...
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