Özet:

Africans faced various types of torture under European colonialism, which targeted their homeland and the future of their generations in the period between the fifteenth and nineteenth centuries AD, which prompted some West African poets who hated colonialism to express their hopes and the pain of their peoples through poetry systems this is to raise awareness against their atrocities, condemn the occupation, and stir up enthusiasm for the defense of African land, homeland, and identity. From this point of view, this research seeks - according to the historical and analytical descriptive method - to shed light on the reaction of the African peoples in their cultural resistance and steadfastness in front of the colonizers, and to reveal the image of colonialism and colonizers in the Arab region through the study of West African poetry, and to clarify the issues and implications that poets addressed when they denounced them for that era related to the image of colonialism, and to identify the most prominent African poets who wrote in this field. It also tries to show us the positions of the poets of the region from this colonialism. The study concluded a number of conclusions, including that Afro-Arab poetry were a mirror reflecting the suffering of the African people under the scourge of colonialism, and it was also a resistance along with the weapons and rifles used by the people to repel the advance of the enemy. It was also found through the study that the poets of the region worked to educate the people and warn of the intrigues of the colonialists, their plan and policy to eradicate all the possessions of the African people of identity, culture, wealth, etc.

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