- Read the following narrative and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following narrative and answer the questions that follow.
Once upon a time, Warthog and Hare were best friends and they lived together. They shared duties according to each one’s abilities. Hare had speed, therefore, duties involving fetching or delivering items fast were left to him, while Warthog, who was gifted in cooking, handled kitchen duties. However, Warthog had his shortcomings. He lost his temper easily and was ready to fight at the slightest provocation. Hare tolerated him all the same.
Things were not always good in the kitchen. The two always quarrelled over missing food. Warthog was always on the defence, denying any wrong doing. One day, Hare bought five tilapia fish but warthog only served two. When he was asked what happened to the other three fish, as usual, Warthog insisted that he knew nothing about the missing fish. Hare was aware that arguing or fighting would not bring back the lost fish. He also knew that he was smaller and could never win a physical fight against warthog.
Not long after the missing fish incident, Hare and Warthog went hunting. They chanced upon a young gazelle too weak to run. They took the gazelle home and slaughtered it. Warthog as usual was the chef. Hare left him and went for a stroll as he waited for the meat to cook. When he returned, warthog, was sleeping under a shady tree, pretending to be very tired, after cooking. Hare opened the lid and Lo! There were only few pieces of meat left.
Hare was really angry and he threatened to beat Warthog up if he failed to account for the missing pieces. Under faked annoyance, Warthog pounced on hare mid-sentence and beat him up thoroughly. Hare promised to get even. That evening, hare went to see Mr. Squirrel who was the best known magician in the whole region. Squirrel gave him a pot of honey to take to Warthog. When he went back home, Hare feigned forgiveness and invited warthog to taste the honey.
Warthog approached him cautiously, he knew that Hare was quite tricky at times. He thought the pot might contain a snake.
So he started apologizing to Hare from a distance for beating him but Hare laughed it off, reminding him that the differences between them were history and they should both start anew. Warthog, who loved honey, approached hare and scooped some which he ate greedily. However, what he did not know was that it had passed through the hands of Squirrel who had laced it with poisonous herbs that would affect Warthog and his descendants.
After eating half the pot’s contents, Warthog felt dizzy and sleepy. When he woke up, he could not remember anything, his brain had been affected by the poisonous herbs. He forgot about his friendship and quarrel with Hare. He did not even remember eating the honey. He was so confused that he ran off into the bush. Warthog’s brain has never recovered. Till now he is always confused and forgetful.
a) Classify the above narrative
b) Identify and illustrate three features of style in the narrative.
c) What makes Warthog and Hare best friends?
d) What are the economic activities in the community where the story is taken from?
e) How has Hare been portrayed in the story?
f) What moral lesson do we learn from the above story?
Date posted: August 20, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the excerpt below then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the excerpt below then answer the questions that follow.
Mrs. Linde: I think I have the right to be. I too have
Nora: I think so, too. But now, listen to this: something to be proud and glad of.
Mrs. Linde: I have no doubt you have. But what do you refer
Nora: Speak low. Suppose Torvald were to hear! He mustn't on any account — no one in the world must know, Christine, except you.
Mrs. Linde: But what is it?
Nora: Come here. (pulls her down on the sofa beside her.)
Now I will show you that I too have something to be proud of. It was I who saved Torvald's life.
Mrs. Linde: 'Saved'? How?
Nora: I told you about our trip to Italy. Torvald would never have recovered if he had not gone there —
Mrs. Linde: Yes, but your father gave you the necessary funds.
Nora: (smiling) Yes, that is what Torvald and all the others think, but—
Mrs. Linde: But—
Nora: Papa didn't give us a shilling. It was I who procured the
Mrs. Linde: You? All that large sum?
Nora: Two hundred and fifty pounds. What do you think of that?
Mrs. Linde: But, Nora, how could you possibly do it? Did you win a prize in the lottery?
Nora: (contemptuously) In the lottery? There would have been no credit in that.
Mrs. Linde: But where did you get it from, then?
Nora: (humming and smiling with an air of mystery) Hm, hm! Aha!
Mrs. Linde: Because you couldn't have borrowed it.
Nora: Couldn't l? Why not?
Mrs. Linde: No a wife cannot borrow without her husband consent.
Nora: (tossing her head) Oh, if it is a wife who has any head for business — a wife who has the wit to be a little bit clever
Mrs. Linde: I don't understand it at all, Nora.
Nora: There is no need you should. I never said I had borrowed the money. I may have got it some other way. (lies back on the sofa) Perhaps I got it from some other admirer. When anyone is as attractive as I am -
Mrs. Linde: You are a made creature.
Nora: Now, you know you're full of curiosity, Christine.
Mrs. Linde: Listen to me, Nora dear. Haven't you been a little bit imprudent?
Nora: (sits up straight) It is important to save your husband's life.
Mrs. Linde: It seems to me imprudent, without his knowledge, to -
Questions:
a) Place the excerpt in its immediate context.
b) What major theme comes out in the excerpt?
c) Give two-character traits of Nora brought out in the excerpt.
d) Compare what Mrs Line has been through to what Nora has gone through and say what it reveals about women.
e) Explain dramatic irony as brought our through Nora's revelation.
f) I think I have the right to bee (Add a question tag)
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the following passage and answer the questions that follow.
With every passing day, technology is overtaking our daily lives. Regardless of age, gender, career or economic status, smartphones are fast becoming ubiquitous.
More than two million Kenyans now own smartphones. Add the computer, tablet and other high tech devices and your life is surrounded by a myriad gadgets which, to some, have become best friends.
Many of us rely on the phone to do everything, from saying “ I love you” to “I’m quitting”, from checking bank balances to selling stuff on OLX, from sharing photos and videos to streaming content on the web. We can carry out a plethora of daily tasks, right from the palms of our hands.
At the dinner table, it’s the norm to constantly check for texts, e-mails, tweets, WhatsApp and Face book updates. In a darkened movie hall, people are always multi task on their phones while watching a movie. Some people even walk with the phone to the toilet and text and take calls from there.
Over dinner, in church, at a funeral service and even when carrying on face-to-face conversation, the smartphone is guaranteed to keep you in tune and in touch. It is common to see careless people texting while driving despite the fact that it is six times more dangerous to text and drive than to drink and drive.
Because of this over-dependence on the smartphone, many people suffer from the fear of losing it, even if only for a few minutes.
The “I must- have-my-phone-with-me-at-all-times” mindset has become such a real problem. There’s now a name coined for the fear of being without phone: nomophobia -no-mo(bile) phone-phobia. Nomophobia is the fear of not being able to connect to the digital world by the means of mobile phone.
Although there is no ICD-10 code (the required classification for any medical condition) yet for this specific affliction, researchers into the phenomenon describe nomophobic people as individuals who suffer from the anxiety of not having their mobile phone.
The anxiety commonly manifests itself when the person notices their smartphones has a low battery, no internet connection or if it is missing and one is therefore out of the loop with friends, family, work and the world. We are ever so busy with gadgets that we intrude into other people’s space.
As our culture becomes ever more tech savvy and tech hungry, phone-free zones will become more and more common. Just like we have smoke-free zones in public places, we are starting to see quiet corners, where phone calls are restricted. It’s because common courtesy is often thrown out the window when we’re on the phone.
Some airports are now offering lounges that are cell phone free. Just like cigarettes, the mobile phone pendulum is beginning to swing as more and more people acquire monophonic tendencies.
Considering the Smartphone’s new abilities and capabilities, they are now being used like digital ‘Swiss Army Knives’, replacing possessions like watches, cameras, books and even laptops. Today the Smartphone is capable of being an alarm clock, digital camera, and even television, which causes users to become heavily dependent on it.
Psychologists advise that, while monophobia could possibly never receive a diagnosis, it is certainly a rising trend. If you constantly find yourself using your Smartphone at odd times, such as dinner table, while driving, or even in washroom, try your best to refrain from it and use it only when it is safe and not considered rude.
Setting limits for yourself and engaging with family and friends face-to-face can help calm the anxiety of continuously checking your phone.
(Adapted from Sunday Nation May 25, 2014)
Questions
a) Why is technology said to be overtaking our daily lives?
b) In point form, state the uses of a phone.
c) What are the bad habits that result from over-dependency on the phone as seen in the passage and how can they be managed?
d) When does anxiety manifest itself more with the use of a phone?
e) According to the passage, why is there need for free zones in public places.
f)Some airports are now offering lounges that are cellphone free.’ Rewrite using a question tag.
g) What is the author’s attitude towards smartphones?
h) Give the meaning of the following words as used in the passage:
a) Myriad......................................
b) Ubiquitous............................
c) Plethora................................
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Choose the correct word to fill in the blank spaces. (Solved)
Choose the correct word to fill in the blank spaces.
i) I came here with Don and .....................(she ,her)
ii) Between you and ................... (I, me) who is more generous?
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill in each of the blank spaces with an appropriate word. (Solved)
Fill in each of the blank spaces with an appropriate word.
i) The burglar was accused ................. being an accomplice in the theft.
ii) The banana was shared .............. the three girls.
iii) The book is hidden ..................the view of passers – by.
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Complete each of the following sentences using the correct phrasal verb formed from the word given in brackets.
(Solved)
Complete each of the following sentences using the correct phrasal verb formed from the word given in brackets .
i) It was so dark that I could hardly.................. the person lurking in the darkness. (make)
ii) The nurse was so..................that she threw the file onto the doctor’s desk (work)
iii) The number of AIDS patients in Kenya is ................. (come)
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions after each. (Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions after each.
i) It is bad manners to spit on the ground. (Rewrite using a gerund)
ii) It is a pleasant surprise to meet you again after all these years. (Rewrite beginning: What…….)
iii) Kathundai likes eating rice more than taking coffee. (Begin: Kathundai prefers …….)
iv) There were very few boys in our class. (use ……any…….)
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the excerpt below and then answer the questions that follow.
Helmer: What sort of an expression is that to use about our marriage?
Nora: (undisturbed) I mean that I was simply transferred from papa's hands into yours. You arranged everything according to your own taste, and so I got the same tastes as yours or else I pretended to, I am really not quite sure which — I think sometimes the one and sometimes the other. When I look back on it, it seems to me as if I had been living here like a poor woman —just from hand to mouth. I have existed merely to perform tricks for you, Torvald. But you would have it so. You and papa have committed a great sin against me. It is your fault that I have made nothing of my life.
Helmer: How unreasonable and how ungrateful you are, Nora! Have you not been happy here?
Nora: No, I have never been happy. I thought I was, but it has never really been so.
Helmer: Not — not happy!
Nora: No, only merry. And you have always been so kind to me. But our home has been nothing but a playroom. I have been your doll-wife, just as at home I was papa's doll-child;and here the children have been my dolls. I thought it great fun when you played with me, just as they thought it great fun when I played with them. That is what our marriage has been Torvald.
Helmer: There is some truth in what you say — exaggerated and strained as your view of it is. But for the future it shall be different. Playtime shall be over, and lesson-time shall begin.
Nora: Whose lessons? Mine , or the children's?
Helmer: Both yours and the children's my darling Nora.
Nora: Alas, Torvald, you are not the man to educate me into being a proper wife for you.
Helmer: And you can say that!
Nora: And I — how am I fitted to bring up the children?
Helmer: Nora!
Nora: Didn't you say so yourself a little while ago — that you dare not trust me to bring them up?
Helmer: In a moment of anger! Why do you pay any heed to that?
Nora: Indeed, you were perfectly right. I am not fit for the task. There is another task I must undertake first. I must try and educate myself— you are not the man to help me in that.
I must do that for myself. And that is why I am going to leave you now.
Helmer: (springing up) What do you say?
Nora: I must stand quite lone, if I am to understand myself and everything about me.lt is for that reason that I cannot remain with you any longer.
Helmer: Nora, Nora!
Nora: I am going away from now, at once. I am sure Christine will take me in for the night —
Helmer: You are out of your mind! I won't allow it! I forbid you!
Nora: It is no use forbidding me anything any longer. I will take with me what belongs to myself. I will take nothing from you, either now or later.
Helmer: What sort of madness is this!
Nora: Tomorrow I shall go home — I mean, to my old home. It will be easiest for me to find something to do there. Helmer: You blind, foolish woman!
Questions:
a) What expression had Nora used about their marriage?
b) How does this excerpt add relevance to the title of the play?
c) Give two-character traits for each of the following characters as brought out in the excerpt.
1) Helmer
2) Nora
d) What theme comes out in the excerpt?
e) explain place of women in society
f) I am going away from here now. (Change into a negative statement)
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.(Solved)
Read the passage below and answer the questions that follow.
Africans are undoubtedly a very enduring race and have the capacity to utilize the available natural resources for the betterment of life. The biggest challenge however, is to identify ways and means of creating an environment that is likely to encourage development in Africa.
Perhaps the greatest strategy would be to develop political structures and government institutions that have the capacity to formulate and implement genuine poverty alleviation strategies. Administrative arrangements that no longer serve our needs should be overhauled or discarded altogether. Governments should foster exploitation and management of natural resources by providing an enabling environment. Having stable governments may not be effective if we don’t fight corruption. We should ensure that leaders and government agents become answerable to the taxpayers. The public should be educated on the ills of corruption. Those who have stolen public funds must be made to return it or face the full force of the law. Again, people known to have stashed money in foreign banks should be forced to repatriate that money so as to improve cash flow in our economies.
Apart from this, African countries must find a way of solving their internal conflicts without involving the international community; after all, we are all brothers with a common cause. The need to unite and exist as unitary states should be stressed as this overrides clan and tribal rights or sentiments that fuel animosity. The African union should be strengthened to enable it to arbitrate intra and inter – states disputes. The resulting peace will provide a suitable environment for economic growth and set us on the road to recovery and prosperity.
Another solution would be to develop rural –based economies since the bulk of our population lives in the rural areas. Industries that process farm produce and those that manufacture farm inputs, machinery and implements should be located in rural areas. Similarly, mining concerns should establish processing plants near mines. Such industries will naturally recruit manpower from the locality involved and consequently reduce the incidence of rural – urban migration. Setting up industries in the rural areas will necessitate development of infrastructure, which will open up the rural areas for business. This will further encourage agricultural expansion and increase food production to counter perennial
food shortages in Africa. For instance, development of dairy and beef processing industry in the rural areas will encourage development of sustainable livestock keeping and probably bring to an end the loss of cattle to drought. A rural based economy will basically raise the income of the rural people and bridge the disparity between the rich and the poor.
We could also introduce appropriate technology in exploitation of natural resources and in wealth creation. Since imported technologies are expensive to maintain, Africans should tap the local expertise to develop technologies appropriate to our needs. Home – grown technology should enable us alleviate Africans food insecurity for utilizing river and lake water for irrigation and by harvesting wind and solar energy.
Lastly, our regional economic units such as ECOWAS, SADC and EAC should be transformed into common markets by removing unnecessary tariffs on goods at various entry points so as to realize the benefits of a common market.
The people of Africa should continually seek a better life. We have the resources; the manpower and the capacity to make things move.
a) From paragraph 1, what is the author’s opinion of Africans?
b) What should African countries do to fight corruption?
c) Explain how Africans can open up rural areas
d) We have the resources; the manpower and the capacity to make things move.
(Rewrite adding a question tag)
e) Using information in the passage, summarize the ways of fostering development in African countries in not more than 50 words.
f) What is the tone of the last paragraph of this passage? Give reasons from the passage to support your answer.
g) Explain the meaning of each of the following expressions as used in the passage.
i) stashed
ii) disparity
iii) fuel animosity
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Fill the blanks with the correct preposition.(Solved)
Fill the blanks with the correct preposition.
(i) The accused was so confused that he was lost________________ words.
(ii) A friend is someone you should be able to count _______________when you are in difficulties.
(iii)The county Director of education conferred _______________the class teacher before entering the class.
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following in passive voice.(Solved)
Rewrite the following in passive voice.
i) People say this new material is very good
ii) A student dentist took two of my teeth out.
(iii)A guide took me round Fort Jesus.
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Punctuate the following sentences correctly:(Solved)
Punctuate the following sentences correctly.
(i) The frog states an old African proverb does not jump without a reason
(ii) The principal said thank you for the information Mrs. Mulwa.
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Punctuate the following sentences correctly.(Solved)
Punctuate the following sentences correctly.
(i) The frog states an old African proverb does not jump without a reason
(ii) The principal said thank you for the information Mrs. Mulwa.
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each .Do not change the meaning.(Solved)
Rewrite the following sentences according to the instructions given after each .Do not change the meaning.
(i) Lillian Gilbreth invented the step - on garbage can. Her children wrote about her life.
(Join into one sentence using ‘whose’)
(ii) My brother and me have been taking piano lessons for six years. (Rewrite correctly)
(iii) Is this the only blue car in your showroom?
(Begin: Aren’t)
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.
(Solved)
Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow.
Nora: Yes, read it.
Helmer: (standing by the lamp) I scarcely have the courage to do it. It may mean ruin for both of us. No, I must know. (Tears open the letter, runs his eye over a few lines, looks at a paper enclosed, and gives a shout of joy) Nora! — No, I must read it once again Yes, it is true! I am saved! Nora, I am
Nora: And l?
Helmer: You too, of course; we are both saved, both you and l. Look, he sends you your bond back. he says he regrets and repents —that a happy change in his life -- never mine what he says! We are saved, Nora! No one can do anything to you, Oh, Nora, — no, first I must destroy these hateful things. Let me see - . (takes a look at the bond) No, no, I won't look at it. The whole thing shall be nothing but a bad dream to me. (Tears up the bond and both letters, throws them all into the stove and watches them burn.) There — now it doesn't exist any longer. He says that since Christmas Eve you —These must have been three dreadful days for you, Nora.
Nora: I have fought a hard fight these three days.
Helmer: And suffered agonies, and seen no way out but-. No, we won't call any of the horror to mind. We will only shout with joy, and keep saying, 'It's all over! It's all over!' Listen to me, Nora. You don't seem to realize that it is all over. What is this? — Such a cold, set face! My poor little Nora, I quite understand; you don't feel as if you could believe that I have forgiven you. But it is true, Nora, I swear it. I have forgiven you everything. I know that what you did, you did out of love for me.
Nora: That is true
Helmer: You have loved me as a wife ought to love her husband. Only you had not sufficient lcnowledge to judge of the means you used. But do you suppose you are any the less dear to me, because you don't understand how to act on your own responsibility? No, no; only lean on me; I will advise you and direct you. I should not be a man if this Womanly helplessness did not just give you a double attractiveness in my eyes. You must not think any more about the hard things I said in my first moment of consternation, when I thought everything was going to overwhelm me. I have forgiven you, Nora; I swear to you I have forgiven you.
Nora: Thank you for your forgiveness. (She goes out through the door to the right.)
Questions:
a) What is it that Nora asks Helmer to read?
b) After reading the letter, Helmer exclaims. 'l am saved!' What does this reveal about him?'
c) What style is brought out when Helmer says, 'I know that what you did, you did out of love for me.’
d) Explain what happens after the excerpt.
e) From your knowledge of the play what made Krogstad change his stand.
f) Thank you for your forgiveness. (Use the word appreciate instead of thank you)
g) What is the meaning of the following words as used in the excerpt?
1.ruin
2.Dreadful
3.Agonies
4.Overwhelm
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the passage and then answer the questions that follow. (Solved)
Read the passage and then answer the questions that follow.
Two weeks before the fateful examination began; I was indiscreet enough to fight the principal’s son. He was a fellow fifth former with whom ,up till then ,I had no quarrel at all .He was inclined to be a little overbearing at times ;but then a flint needs contact with another flint in order to spark, and I had been forced to develop from the start an easy-going and tolerant disposition .I suppose as the examination drew nearer, our nerves became tauter and our tempers shorter .When, during a discussion in our classroom about careers Samuel declared unnecessarily loudly that he believed all persons who came from North should return to it to find employment ,I suddenly felt my anger rising like a column of mercury. I asked him why, in as calm a voice as I could assume. He replied with a sneer by quoting a Sagroson proverb whose meaning was roughly that even a man who does not know where he is going to ought, at least, to know where he has come from: and the gentle laughter, which greeted it brought my temper to boiling point. I was tall and well built, but so was he. Three strides took me beside him and by the time the class prefect succeeded in separating us, Sagrosan blood and Lokko blood had mingled on the floor. Moreover, as is the custom with us, the fight was as much verbal as physical and a torrent of abuse directed mainly against the other’s antecedents was flowing out of each battered mouth.
We were bloody, sweaty, and dusty when it was over but still only partly through our respective stocks of abuse. Nothing more than a heighted respect each for the other might have come out of the fight, had Samuel been a boarder. Unfortunately for both of us, however, he lived very much under his august father’s eye and the marks I had succeeded in leaving on his face were too distinctive to be hidden by any sort of artifice. I prepared for the worst (prepared in spirit that is, for physical preparations were known to be unavailing at such times.)The summons to the principal’s office duly came after lunch the same day.
He was quite impartial, I’ll say that for him. We were both arched over his desk and inscribed across our rumps with two dozen strokes of a bamboo four-footer .Then we were made to shake hands with each other and sent off for walk together along the beach and back (this was the principal’s usual way of dealing with a pair of fighters, and one which usually made bosom friends of them.)That thrashing and the walk which followed ,gave me the moments of deepest mortification I have experienced ,and drove home to me the utter futility and wastefulness of making issue of tribal divisions, in a land where much else required our attentions and our energies .Having heard from us how the fight started ,the principal might so early have wasted our time and his reading us along patriotic sermon on the essential brotherhood of all the people of Songhai .
Such a theme would have made him appear to me hypocrite and to Samuel a traitor –for we both knew only too well that the difference between us were real, if not deep .Instead, we were made to share a fellowship of misery and humiliation which linked us together more effectively than any half-believed fiction about cultural or ethnic affinities could have succeeded in doing.
QUESTIONS:
(a) What was the cause of the fight?
b)Show how the statement “A flint needs contact with another flint in order to spark” is applicable to this story?
c) With illustrations show the difference in character between the narrator and his classmates?
(d) What is the narrator’s attitude towards the head teacher?
e) Identify three phrases in the passage to describe the fierce nature of the fight?
(f) Identify two images that are used to show the extent of the narrator’s anger?
(g) Identify a case of parenthesis in paragraph one?
h) Get a quotation from the passage that shows the fight did not end the tribal differences between the two groups?
(i) Explain the meaning of the following phrases as used in passage: (2marks)
(i) bosom friends
(ii) Patriotic sermon
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Read the following passage and then answer the question that follow .(Solved)
Read the following passage and then answer the question that follow.
Africa are undoubtedly a very enduring race and have the capacity to utilize the available natural resources for the betterment of life. The biggest challenge, however, is to identify ways and means of creating an environment that is likely to encourage development in Africa. Perhaps the greatest strategy would be to develop political structures and government institutions that have the capacity to formulate and implement ‘genuine poverty alleviation strategies’. Administrative arrangements that no longer serve our needs should be overhauled or discarded altogether. Government should foster exploitation and management of natural resources by providing an enabling environment. Having stable government may not be effective if we don’t fight corruption. We should ensure that leaders and government agents become answerable to the tax payer. The public should be educated on the ills of corruption.Those who have stolen public funds must be made to return them and face the full force of the law. Again, people known to have stashed money in foreign banks should be forced to repatriate that money so as to improve cash flow in our economies.
Apart from this, Africa must find a way of solving their internal conflicts without involving the international community. After all, we are all brothers with a common cause .The need to unite and exist as unitary state should be stressed as this overrides clan and tribal rights or sentiments that fuel animosity. The Africa union should be strengthened to enable it to arbitrate intra and inter-state disputes .The resulting peace will provide a suitable environment for economic growth and set us on the road to recovery and prosperity. Another solution would be to develop rural-based economies, since the bulk of our population live in the rural areas. Industries that process farm produce and those that manufacture farm inputs, machinery and implements should be located in the rural areas .Similarly mining concerns should establish processing plants near the mines. Such industries will naturally recruit manpower from the locality involved and consequently reduce the incidence of rural-urban migration. Setting up industries in the rural areas will necessitate development of infrastructures which will open up rural areas for business This will further encourage expansion and increase food production to counter perennial food shortage in Africa .For instances development of dairy and beef processing industry in the rural areas will encourage sustainable livestock keeping and probably bring to an end loss of cattle to drought. A rural based economy will basically raise the income of the rural people and bridge the disparity between the rich and the poor.
We should also introduce appropriate technology in exploitation of natural resources and in wealth creation. Since imported technologies are expensive to maintain, Africa should tap local expertise to develop technologies appropriate to our needs. Home grown technology should enable us alleviate Africa’s food security by utilizing river and lake water for irrigation and by harnessing wind and solar energy.
Lastly our economic units such as ECOWAS, SADC, and EAC should be transformed into common markets by removing unnecessary tariffs on goods at various entry points so as to realize the benefits of a common market. The people of Africa should continually seek a better life. We have the resources; we have the manpower, and the capacity to make things move.
Questions
a) What should African countries do to fight corruption?
b) Explain how Africans can open up rural areas
c)What do you understand by the term ‘genuine poverty alleviation strategies’?
d) How can we reduce the incidence of rural –urban migration?
e)Why is appropriate technology useful?
f)How can African government improve cash flow in their economies .
In not more than fifty words write a summary on the various ways of fostering development in African countries
a)Rough copy
b)Fair copy
h) What is the tone of the last paragraph of this passage concerning the future of Africa?
i) The public should be educated on the ills of corruption. (Add a question tag)
j) Explain the meaning of the following words and phrase as used in the passage.
i) Stashed
ii) Disparity
Date posted: August 19, 2019. Answers (1)
- Choose the correct pronoun to fill in the blanks.(Solved)
Choose the correct pronoun to fill in the blanks.
i) He was asked to choose between John and .......(I /me )
ii) I have forgotten ……………………… I gave my book. ( who/whom
Date posted: August 16, 2019. Answers (1)
- Replace the underlined words with one word that means the same as the underlined phrase.(Solved)
Replace the underlined words with one word that means the same as the underlined phrase.
i) The city council pulled down all the structures on road reserves.
ii) He passed out during his grandmother’s funeral.
Date posted: August 16, 2019. Answers (1)
- Replace the underlined words with gender - friendly words. (Solved)
Replace the underlined words with gender - friendly words.
i) The spokesman of the government was at the function.
ii) The Musyokis have a very hard - working housegirl.
Date posted: August 16, 2019. Answers (1)