The poem takes place in a village in Northern Sierra Leone, most likely Masingbi in the Tokonili neighbourhood, which is where the poet is originally from. The major occupation of women in this district of the country is farming and agriculture, which is used in addition to help finance businesses as well as aid in the advancement of societal structure as a whole. The composer discusses the significance of African music. Music is an essential component of how Africans communicate, rejoice, and remember historical facts. The amusement provided by songs assisted in relieving the people’s anguish and hardship in the land.

The song of the women of my land is a lament for the suffering of women in Sierra Leone. They wailed in agony and sang about it. The poem begins with a comparison of modern and old Africa, where women’s songs preserve African cultural history. The songs, lyrics, and tunes metaphorically depict Africa’s culture and history. The character claims that the songs have vanished since the younger generation has lost touch with music. The character complains how time has destroyed the songs’ memories. Time denotes modernity or the impact of Western culture on African lifestyles in this context. Culture and tradition are maintained over time if people continue to live by them, record them, and pass them on to future generations.

The women, according to the character, left their songs to share their story. Moreover, he discloses in the next verse that the songs are seeking a place or someone to occupy in order to commemorate the misery of the ladies who sweated for the land on farmlands and plantation fields. Through this, the composer’s identity alludes to enslavement. To recount the story of enslavement... and ‘who ploughed their soil and soul.’

The author remarked on the attempts to depict what has occurred to the woman’s life in the last stanza. He notices that the pen’s lips stumble as his rib screeches in an effort to sing the song of his country’s ladies. In other words, he finds it challenging to attempt to convey the tale of the ladies in his poetry because the incidents that make up the women’s story occurred in a place and time far distant from the present. This is due to the fact that numerous elements of the stories of women’s oppression and subordination were never documented or discussed due to the lack of comparison between now and yesterday.

In the concluding verse, the poet demonstrates how he immortalises the music of the ladies of the region. The poem concludes with the persona mentioning how the songs have found a home in his lyrics. Those lines will be remembered in the pages of literature for the rest of the time.