"Ode to Ethiopia" is a poem by Paul Laurence Dunbar, a noted African-American poet who achieved a national reputation in the United States before the end of the nineteenth century, published in his 1893 book Oak and Ivy.
[1] Dunbar presents ideas of Ethiopia as a mother, shows a pride in the African-American people, and encourages hope as well as racial pride.
His poem emphasizes a belief in a brighter future ahead for the people of Ethiopia which is based on their own honor and hard labour.
Part of this poem was used as a prologue to the fourth movement of William Grant Still's Symphony No.
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