Afro-Asian literature, for me, it embodies and illustrates the challenges, tragedies or struggles they have faced when they were under the Western conquerors many years ago. They are poems that portrays the struggle and suffering experienced by Africans and some Asians unto this day. One of this poems is Africa's Plea by Roland Tombekai Dempster which tells us about how people are discriminating them, how people would not accept them for who they are because they may look different unlike others. Like it says, they didn't have a chance to be themselves, like they are hiding from a different identity rahter their own because of what people say to them and how they were treated. Another example is the poem Africa by David Diop, it tells us about how Africa was under slavery for a long time until slavery ends and they got what they longed for, freedom. Afro-Asian poetry expresses what these writers are feeling, it is an outlet where they may express the pain they felt about the struggles they have gone through the years or to express how prud they are because they were able to come through it strong.

          Afro- Asian literature includes novels, stories, poems and other forms of literature found in Asian and African countries. They may be under Chinese, Indian, Japanese, or Philippine literature. Two of which as follows:

          African literature uses 49 African and languages for written literary expression, 18 of these are southern African languages. Native literature was influenced greatly by Christian religious writings like the Bible and Bunyan's Pilgrim’s Progress. The first written European literature which Africans read were religious leaflets, ethnological accounts, history and geography books were made intended for schools and the general public.

          Indian literature, like that of Africa’s, is mostly about religion. It has its roots in the sacred writings of the Rig-Veda and Upanishads. Both were scriptures of the pre-Hindu Vedic religion.

         Afro-Asian literature, in general, is mostly affected by the culture of which country it is in. Japan, for instance, has poems mostly about nature. Some are about Buddhism. Both these factors are some of what makes up Japan’s culture.

Afro-asian poems are useful for us; just try to imagine that without these poems we may not truly understand the feelings of African and Asian people in the world. African and Asian mostly have common when it comes to some features of the poems such that they deal about nature, the poems are based from their own lives experiences, and realistic image can be drawn from their poems. The poems have moral lessons that we can relate to our real life, these poems let us appreciate that Africans and Asians have their uniqueness when it comes to literature that the way of communication is the way if art on how they could deliver their feelings.

Afro-Asian poetry somewhat portrays the tragedies, experiences and their lives when they have been conquered by the Western Colonizers several years ago. One example of this is Africa by David Diop, the poem tells about the life of the Africans that they are craving for freedom on the times that they have been discriminated and slaved. Afro-Asians convey true and realistic experiences in an art of communication using poems to deliver feelings and the authors will to share information to us readers. There are poems about afro-asian literature that we can take literally but once and for all we need to understand the deep thoughts of the author/s she or he did. A lot of people are not that interested to these poems but afro-asian poetry wants to tell us about the true meaning of every word in that poem that deals with their treasured memories. Even though we can not imagine what kind of life they had before.

As we all know, Afro-Asian literature is a mix of African, Arab and Asian ethnicity with their resemblance to each other. It may include a viewpoint of life which is profoundly and thoughtfully pleasant. There’s a focus on the developing nations from which were once overcome by stress. It shows their thoughts and shares their feelings about certain things that are a part of life; this is mostly shown in Afro-Asian poetry.

In my point of view, I see Afro-Asian poetry as a way through which emotions can be shown without any fear. Like in the poem ‘Africa’s Plea’ by Robert Dempster, it tells about how people are different the way they are and that nobody could tell who you must be. That each person in this world has their own job to be done and we should not get in the way of other people’s business. While in the poem ‘Africa’ by David Diop it showed appreciation for the ancestors though their history was a bit painful and hard.

Those people who write poems present their distinctiveness by supporting and deepen their beliefs, attitudes and tradition. I believe that behind every poem have a deeper meaning to it and that is a special meaning that the poet wants to share with the readers.