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NLI521S - NAMIBIAN LITERATURE - 1ST OPP - NOVEMBER 2025 |
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nAm I BI AunIVE RS ITV
OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCE AND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION : BACHELOR OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BENL
LEVEL: 5
COURSE CODE: NLl521S
COURSE NAME: NAMIBIAN LITERATURE
SESSION: OCTOBER/NOVEMBER 2025
DURATION: 2 HOURS
PAPER: THEORY (PAPER 1)
MARKS: 100
EXAMINER(S)
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
PROF M . MHENE
MS E. KAM SWALE
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MODERATOR: MR A. BREWIS
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Question 1 in Section A is compulsory. Answer one question from
Section B.
2. Total Marks: 100.
3. Read all the questions carefully before answering.
4. For questions 1,2, and 3,the essay must be 600 words.
5. For question 4, the essay must be 400 words.
6. Number the answers clearly.
7. Write legibly.
8. Mistakes in spelling and grammar will be penalised.
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF_4_ PAGES (Including this front page)
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SECTION A (COMPULSORY)
QUESTION 1
(SO marks)
Prose: Troubled Waters by Professor Joseph Diescho.
Joseph Diescho's Troubled Waters is a tale of the dilemmas thrown up by the Apartheid
system. Diescho delves deeply into the minds of both Afrikaner and Black to emerge with a
picture of people who are both clever and discerning[sensitive/cultured], but helpless to alter
the system they find themselves in. Write an essay highlighting the MAJOR THEMES in the
novel.
(600 words)
SECTION B ( Answer ONE question from one of the genres)
QUESTION 2
(SO marks)
Drama: God of Women by Professor Sifiso Nyathi.
God of women focuses on seven major themes. Write an essay where you describe any FIVE
OF THE THEMES highlighting how each theme brings out the concepts of polygamy, abuse
and patriarchy.
(600 words)
OR
QUESTION 3
(SO marks)
Autobiography: Are you a Person or a Ghost by Professor Andrew Niikondo.
Write an essay narrating Prof Niikondo's experiences from the time he began his journey into
exile until his return to Namibia. Highlight some of his traumatic experiences in your essay.
(600 words)
OR
QUESTION 4
(SO marks)
Poetry: Selected Namibian poems by Namibian poets
Choose ONE poem from the following and write an essay of not more than 400 words
!)Rumbling Stomach by Kavevangua Kahengua
The mood flies high
Like quelea birds
Soldiers march down
Independence Avenue
It's March twenty-first
Thuds come faintly to my ears
As if I were deaf
The mood flies high
The day is dull
A wintry halo
Surrounds my body
As I wave down passing cars
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With my hungry hand
From vantage point
Where great names meet
You name them:
Corner of Robert Mugabe
And Sam Nujoma
Corner of Laurent Kabila
And Nelson Mandela
Corner of Hage Geingob
And Julius Kambarage Nyerere
Eyes shy like those of trapped hyena
Peep at me
Yes, trapped in their wealth
Perhaps some day some job will come my way
Isn't being positive
A fantasy
Have you ever missed your breath
The mood flies high
Fireworks rock the night
Like colonial gun motors
From underneath the bridge
Inside my empty stomach
Air rumbles like a thunderstorm
Perhaps I should turn over a new leaf
Turn to rape
To push the days of the week
And fill the vacuum.
2)Africa Day by Dr Hugh Ellis
Shabby-faced dustbin man knocks at my door
Inside I'm buried with work and cold
And wearing my African scarf
We won the war
But have we won the peace?
He said: 'Sir I'm hungry and kinda cold
They've taken my house away from me
And my children don't go to school
'We won the war
But have we won the peace?
I said: 'Brother I wish I could help you
I spent my final cent helping a friend
Get away from her abusive spouse'
We won the war
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But have we won the peace?
He said: 'You whites want me to call you baas'
I said: 'Don't you talk like an idiot-
Can't you see my Africa scarf?'
We won the war
But have we won the peace?
Inside again, I'm feeling totally alone
Now I almost want to strangle myself
Yes, with that African scarf
We won the war
But we've not yet won the peace.
3) My Grandmothers Hat by Dr Anneli Nghikembua
My grandmother's hat
Is my grandmother's shield-
Beautiful when on her grey, white hair
Though torn with thousand holes
That the sun rays make their way through
And fall on her folded dry skin
She never leaves her hat behind
And wherever she goes, she always takes it along
My grandmother sleeps with her hat on,
For it is her delight.
I watch her as she approaches me
From a few distant miles.
She looks as though a wall is about to fall apart,
But yet she smiles,
Her hat nodding each time she takes a step.
One may say the hat my grandmother wears
Is her age.
I love my grandmother-
My grandmother loves her grand hat.
Pay special attention to the following as you write your essay:
a) Brief synopsis of the poem.
b) The message in the poem(theme/themes).
c) Images used in the poem.
Total Marks: 100
END OF QUESTION PAPER
(400 words)