The poem is a free verse with 8 stanzas with no regular rhyme scheme. The whole poem is enjambment & a hyperbole. Based on the poem the title “Ego-Tripping,” one could make many suggests: an actual ego trip or celebration of pride, “tripping” as in acting crazy or having your mind blown, and an ego so large that Nikki Giovanni is tripping over it which happens to be her being African American and women. Based on title “Ego Tripping (there may be a reason why)” you can suggest an ego so large that the author is tripping over it, but that is not the poem's purpose. Giovanni's first trip to Africa was in 1972, the year of the publication of this poem. Many of the great ancient African civilizations, the Egyptians, the Carthusian's,