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AFL721S - AFRICAN LITERATURE - 2ND OPP DECEMBER 2025 |
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nAm I BI AunIVER sITY
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 : AFU2B
COURSE NAME: AFRICAN LITERATURE
SESSION:
DECEMBER 2025
PAPER:
THEORY
DURATION: 3 HOURS
MARKS:
100
SECOND OPPORTUNITY EXAMINATION QUESTION PAPER
EXAMINER(S) 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 long (i.e. exhaust the question)
PERMISSIBLE MATERIALS
1. Examination paper
2. Examination script
THIS QUESTION PAPER CONSISTS OF FOUR (4) PAGES (Including this front page)
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Answer any TWO questions
1. Assess how Sifiso Nyathi presents the fears, traditional values, and beliefs in the novel
The Other Presence . To what extent does the author offer alternatives to some of the
traditional values and beliefs? (SO marks}
2. With close reference to the text, demonstrate how Valerie Tagwira effectively
presents the power of resilience in the novel The Uncertainty of Hope . (SO marks}
3. Critically examine the presentation of the metaphorical versions of death and
resurrection in Fugard's play, "Sizwe Bansi is Dead". (SO marks}
4. Analyse the following poem, showing the presentation of Africa and the challenges
which Africans faced under colonialism.
Letter from a Contract Worker by Antonio Jacinto
I wanted to write you a letter
my love,
a letter that would tell
of this desire
to see you
of this fear
of losing you
of this more than benevolence that I feel
of this indefiable ill that pursues me
of this yearning to which I live in total surrender
I wanted to write you a letter
my love,
a letter of intimate secrets
a letter of memories of you
of you
of your lips as red as henna
of your hair as black as mud
of your eyes as sweet as honey
of your breasts as hard as wild orange
of your lynx gait
and of your caresses
such that i can find no better here
I wanted to write you a letter
my love,
that would recall the days in our haunts
our nights lost in the long grass
that would recall the shade falling on us from the plum
trees
the moon filtering the endless palm trees
that would recall the madness
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of our passion
and the bitterness
of our separation ...
I wanted to write you a letter
my love,
that you would read without sighing
that you would hide from papa Bombo
that you would withhold from mama Kieza
that you would reread without the coldness
of forgetting
a letter which in all Kilombo
no other would stand comparison ...
I wanted to write you a letter
my love,
a letter that would be brought to you by the passing wind
a letter that the cashews and coffee trees
the hyenas and buffaloes
the alligators and grayling
could understand
so that if the wind should lose it on the way
the beasts and plants
with pity of our sharp suffering
from song to song
lament to lament
gabble to gabble
would bring you pure and hot
the burning words
the sorrowful words of the letter I wanted to write you my love...
I wanted to write you a letter...
but oh my love, I cannot understand
why it is, why it is, why it is, my dear
that you cannot read
and I - oh the hopelessness! - cannot write!
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5. "African scholars, and especially women, must bring their knowledge to bear on
presenting an African perspective on prospects and problems for women in local
societies. Scholars and persons engaged in development-research planning and
implementation should pay attention to development priorities as local communities
see them." (Pala, 1977, 13).
In light of this view, discuss the negofeminism theory by Nnameka through the analysis of
any one short story studied in this course. (50 marks)
END OF QUESTION PAPER
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