Q and A: Kongi's Harvest by Wole Soyinka

QuestionWole Soyinka dramatized _____ in the play Kongi's HarvestAnswerThe growth and development of political tyranny (option D)ExplanationKongi in the drama "Kongi's Harvest" was a wicked and selfish ruler. "There is a heavy, somber and pessimistic mood as the play begins. The king is endangered. The omniscience in the narration depicts that nothing good will come out of Kongi's leadership over the land of Isma. According to the Superintendent,...

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Q and A: Nausea by Jean Paul Sartre

The Excerpt"There is something new, for example, about my hands, a certain way of picking up my pipe or my fork. Or else it is the fork which now has a certain way of getting itself picked up, I don't know. Just now, when I was on the point of coming into my room, I stopped short because I felt in my hand a cold object which attracted my attention by means of a sort of personality. I opened my hand and looked I was simply holding the door...

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Q and A: End of War by Okinba Launko

                              End of War by Okinba LaunkoQuestionThe casualties in Launko's End of War are ____AnswerMen (Option C)ExplanationThe poem is similar to the poem title The Dining Table by Gbanabom Hallowell. In...

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Q and A: Give Me The Minstrel's Seat

QuestionGive Me The Minstrel's Seat ends on a clarion call for ______AnswerRectitude (Option C)ExplanationThe final line of the poem "Give Me The Minstrel's Seat" goes thus:"Better a loin-cloth without disgrace than d fine-flowered shawl of shame".Above line referred to moral choice of judgement or action in any arising situation. On the other hand, rectitude can be defined as the righteousness of principle or practice; exact conformity to truth...

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Q and A: The Joys of Motherhood by Buchi Emecheta

Question:As a symbol marital success and fulfillment, Ibuza community places a lot of importance on ______(Option A) ChildbirthExplanation:As a novel that typifies the Igbo African tradition, infertility and harshness is a huge subject that mostly develops stigmatization and segregation; therefore,...

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