Women oppression and enslavement: Women constitute gangs of slaves that worked from dawn to dusk on the plantations. Their predicament is compounded by their song of sorrow. The value of African songs: The poet describes the importance of African songs. In Africa, music plays an important part in the way people interact, celebrate and relate historical events. The entertainment from songs helped to relieve the people from agony and suffering in the land.

Lamentation: The song of the women of my land is a song of a deep lamentation over the fate of women in Sierra Leone. They groaned in pains and sang about it.