Summary of In Independence by Manyika ladipo Sarah Chapter One In chapter one, the story begins with preparations for Tayo’s imminent journey from Ibadan, Nigeria to England to take up a scholarship at Balliol College, Oxford; a scholarship which was in the past exclusively reserved for the whites, such that Tayo is the first Nigerian… Continue reading Summary of In Independence by Manyika ladipo Sarah
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Blood of a Stranger – Characterization
CHARACTERISATION OF THE DRAMA, THE BLOOD OF A STRANGER Blood of a Stranger - Characterization SOKO Soko is the chief priest of Mando land whose words are considered as the words of the gods and the ancestors. Hence, Mando people believe his words to be true. Contrarily, he takes the opportunity to deceive the land… Continue reading Blood of a Stranger – Characterization
Blood of a Stranger – Characterization
CHARACTERISATION OF THE DRAMA, THE BLOOD OF A STRANGER SOKO Soko is the chief priest of Mando land whose words are considered as the words of the gods and the ancestors. Hence, Mando people believe his words to be true. Contrarily, he takes the opportunity to deceive the land with selfish lies. He tells them… Continue reading Blood of a Stranger – Characterization
FACELESS – theme, techniques
FACELESS – THEMES, TECHNIQUES Theme of superstition In the prose, the characters believed that certain spiritual phenomena affects the lives of people. Maa Tsuru is believed to have been cursed by her mother to suffer in life. She herself believed this including her husband and mother-in-law. More so, Onko, the character who raped Baby-T, is… Continue reading FACELESS – theme, techniques
FACELESS – summary of the story
FACELESS - summary of the story BOOK ONE ATTEMPTED RAPE As the novel opens, fourteen year old Fofo is seen sleeping on an old cardboard at Agbogbloshie market. She has a job at the vegetable market in Agbogbloshie where she washes carrots. The market is close to a slum known as Sodom and Gomorrah.… Continue reading FACELESS – summary of the story
Faceless – Settings, Plot, Cast
Biography of the author Amma Darko was born in Koforidua, Ghana, on June 26, 1956, and she grew up in Accra. She studied in Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, and gained a diploma in 1980. She worked with a Technology Consultancy Centre in Kumasi. She was born Ophelia Darko. "Amma" is a… Continue reading Faceless – Settings, Plot, Cast
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