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Litt 311:African Poetry Question Paper

Litt 311:African Poetry

Course:Education

Institution: Kenya Methodist University question papers

Exam Year:2013

KENYA METHODIST UNIVERSITY

END OF 1ST TRIMESTER 2013 (DAY) EXAMINATION
FACULTY : EDUCATION AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
DEPARTMENT : EDUCATION
UNIT CODE : LITT 311
UNIT TITLE : AFRICAN POETRY
TIME : 2 HOURS

INSTRUCTIONS

Answer any three questions

Question One
Outline important facts towards understanding poetry. (20 Marks)

Question Two
State and explain five sense devices in poetry. (20 Marks)

Question Three
Analyze the poem "Tell Me Africa" by Ng’ang’a Mbugua with regard to major issues addressed by the poet (20 Marks)

TELL ME AFRICA

By Ng’ang’a Mbugua

Tell me, mama Africa

Are you the suffering angel,

Leashed to the chains of oppression?

Or are you the black burden

Perched on Europe’s back?

Are you the poor mine worker

Dying in the pits of the earth

Searching for the gems that are not your own?

Or are you the insatiable king

Nourished by public offers?

Mama Africa, are you the beggar

Sprawled in the World Bank corridors

Or are you the beneficiary

Of bilateral benevolence?

What are you Africa?

Are you the thatched hut

Fragmented by war

Dying of hunger

Among the walls of your children?

Or are you Africa,

The virgin, luxuriant forest

Dark, unspoilt and rich?

Or are you all of these and more?

Question Four
Discuss the mood and tone in the poem Alex La Guma provided (20 Marks)

ALEX LA GUMA

By T. Ochola

News from far away Havana

The land of heroic Castro

Reports you are no more

When the volcano of your words

Is erupting in your motherland

How brief the report

Tucked inside newspaper columns

You didn’t deserve that

You who wrote so much

So much your death deserved

And your funeral

In far away Havana

The land of heroic Castro

Quiet and solemn

When the dead in your country

Are buried by the blood and lives

Of fighting comrades

And you,

Who chose to fight with body and pen

In the battling streets of black townships

Alongside workers who couldn’t write your name

And children who couldn’t write your name

And children who couldn’t read your books

Are not to be burked in your beloved country

But from far away Havana

Where you write stories of love and freedom

Hear heroic waves knocking fiercely

Against the stones country which will soon open

The free hand
to all who live in it " the price for your death.

Question Five
With relevant examples, discuss the role of African poets in their communities. (20 Marks)

Litt 311:African Poetry Question Paper

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