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AFL721S - AFRICAN LITERATURE - 1ST OPP NOVEMBER 2025 |
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OF SCIEnCE Ano TECHnOLOGY
FACULTY OF COMMERCE, HUMAN SCIENCES AND EDUCATION
DEPARTMENT OF COMMUNICATION AND LANGUAGES
QUALIFICATION: BACHELOR OF ENGLISH AND LINGUISTICS
QUALIFICATION CODE: 07BENL
LEVEL: LEVEL SEVEN
COURSE CODE: AFU2~
COURSE NAME: AFRICAN LITERATURE
SESSION:
NOVEMBER 2025
PAPER:
THEORY
DURATION: 3 HOURS
MARKS:
100
EXAMINER
FIRST OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
PROF. N. MLAMBO
MODERATOR: PROF. S. KRISHNAMURTHY
INSTRUCTIONS
1. Answer TWO the questions.
2. Write clearly and neatly.
3. Number the answers clearly.
4. Each essay must be+/- 1000 words {i.e. exhaust the text)
PERMISSIBLE MATERIALS
1. Examination paper
2. Examination script
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF THREE {3) PAGES (Including this front page)
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Answer any TWO questions
1. Critically examine the presentation of what might be considered the "young
generation" in the novel The Other Presence by S.F. Nyathi. (50 marks)
2. "This is Zimbabwe. A poor woman will always be a poor woman. Hazvichinje! Onai will
never own her own house. She is an unemployed dressmaker who works as a
vegetable vendor. How can you even imagine that she could buy a house? Where
would she get the money from? Katy stared back at him and did not answer. He was
right. The notion of Onai owning a house was ridiculous." (Tagwira, 2006, p. 19). In
light of this quote, critically discuss the challenges that women face in the novel The
Uncertainty of Hope. In your discussion, evaluate how the women react and or
respond to these challenges. (50 marks)
3. "Daddy, if I could stand on my own two feet and not be somebody else' s tool, I'd have
some respect for myself. I'd be a man." (Fugard, 2000, p.156). In light of this quote,
discuss the presentation of the emasculation of the black man under apartheid and
how the oppressed devise ways to survive. (50 marks)
4. Critically analyse the poem "Africa" by David Diop. In your analysis, show the means
through which the poet presents the historical experiences faced by the continent. (50
marks)
Africa
by David Diop
Africa my Africa
Africa of proud warriors in ancest ral savannahs
Africa of whom my grandmother sings
On the banks of the distant river
I have never known you
But your blood flows in my veins
Your beautiful black blood that irrigates the fields
The blood of your sweat
The sweat of your work
The work of your slavery
Africa, tell me Africa
Is this your back that is unbent
This back that never breaks under the weight of humiliation
Th is back trembl ing with red scars
And saying no to the whip under the midday sun
But a grave voice answers me
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Impetuous child that tree, young and strong
That tree over there
Splendidly alone amidst white and faded flowers
That is your Africa springing up anew
springing up patiently, obstinately
Whose fruit bit by bit acquires
The bitter taste of liberty.
5. Apply the negofeminist theory by Nnaemeka to discuss the core themes in any two
short stories of your choice from the anthology The Heinemann Book of African
Women's Writing edited by C.H. Bruner. (SO marks)
END OF QUESTION PAPER
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