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ABSTRACT
The study highlights utopian's vision present in Akinloye Ojo's In flight (a collection of poems), demonstrating the poet's unwavering spirit of hope for the regeneration and transformation of the African continent. He uses literary devices such as metaphor, imagery, and parallelisms to depict Africans quest for better life despite the harsh reality they faced in the colonial rule. It sheds light on the painful postcolonial memory of a failed utopia in post-independent Africa, illuminating the continued presence of neocolonialism on the African continent. Asserting that the memory of failed pre-independence aspirations fuels resistance among the people. This Essay also examines the poet's mobilization of various segments of society for resistance and protest against oppression, inequality, and marginalization. Uniting his fellow writers, the underprivileged, the impoverished, and the working class to challenge the unequal treatment they endure and to protest against the institutionalization of hunger and poverty in politics. Capturing the poet's vision of Europe and America being free from hate and racial discrimination, weaving images of an ideal America to inspire hope for future freedom among Africans in the diaspora. Conclusively, this long essay asserts that the poet's works are depiction of his unwavering commitment to rekindle hope, vision, transformation, and freedom, even in the face of the harsh realities of independence for Africans in the diaspora.
