“Now they shake hands without hearts : while their left hands search my empty pockets.” Why do the left hands search empty pockets now? What does this indicate?

“Now they shake hands without hearts : while their left hands search

1.	“Now they shake hands without hearts : while their left hands search my empty pockets.” Why do the left hands search empty pockets now? What does this indicate?
Answer» The poet expresses his concern for the influence of the western world on age-old African custom. He feels that the once enthusiastic and friendly society of Africa now treated its own people like strangers and looked at each other with suspicion and hostility. The white imperialists always exploited and plundered the wealth of their colonies. So their left hands search the empty pockets of their subjects in an endeavour to rob them further.