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Hatibu is a foil to Tajeer his father. He contrasts with his father in his approach to the way he relates with the members of the community. He represents the relatively most rational business tycoons. However, he is far from being perfect as he sometimes acts out of the influence of ulterior motives. Be that as it may, he plays a major role by augmenting the traits of the other characters in the text, especially the character of Tajeer. When he visits Kibichi at his homestead, he devotes his time carefully explaining the purpose of their visit. This indicates that he believes in dialogue. His argument is valid in the sense that he is backed by the law that gives his family the right of ownership of the land. However, no matter how legally justified he is, the fact remains that he lacks consideration of the native villagers. He takes advantage of the corrupt, incompetent and unsympathetic government. Thus Hatibu can be regarded as insincere and an opportunist. Hatibu comes...

Tajeer is presented as a subject of ridicule, thanks to his role in the play  A HOLE INTHE SKY.   As a dynamic character, the audience is left with ambivalent feelings after watching the play. His ill-health doesn't generate pity since to many members of the audience, it comes as a payback for his evil deeds meted out to the poor villagers. It is his change of character towards the end of the play which makes the audience sympathise with him. By sending his men to evict Kibichi's family, Tajeer emerges as an inconsiderate character. He completely turns a deaf ear to the plea of the villagers as they request to be left alone in their ancestral land. Tajeer's greed blinds him to see the desperation that is likely to be experienced by the villagers if they are removed from their native land. For example, he erects a building directly on the stream thus blocking it completely. The villagers who reside downstream fail to obtain water as the stream is the only source of wate...

The thrust of the poem Horns is pain and death. The poet catalogues the misery of a person who is succumbing to AIDS. A plethora of ailments attack the victim relentlessly. Imagery has been  vastly employed to enhance the meaning of the poem through vivid mental pictures. The form and the structure of the poem have been aptly employed to bring out the ideas explored in the poem. Meaning is suggested by the sections and stanzas, with each section focusing on a different aspect of the subject matter.  The first section of the poem expounds extensively on the extended metaphor of “horns” while the second one focuses on other metaphors that describe various health conditions associated with AIDS.  Shifting the attention from the specific signs and symptoms of the disease to the metaphor of a “warrior”, the poet manages to create strong images of the victim. In the fourth section, the poet resumes the inventory of the ailments affecting an AIDS victim.The fi...