Explanation

Chief Haladu Ade-Amaka is the Minister of External Relations. He is notorious for his corruption and nepotism. Chief Ade-Amaka epitomizes the corrupt and depraved politicians who siphon the state's resources into their private overseas accounts. He symbolizes all that is evil in the society. He is heartless and corrupt. He demonstrates the penchant of African leaders for corruption. His visit to the Chief Justice after Aloho's arrest is significant in this respect. The first words of the Chief Justice, Odili, to him are,"Chief, you seem to take too many things for granted". This statement is an indictment on the politician's attitude towards the law, with collaboration from the likes of Chief Justice Odili. But Chief Ade-Amaka is shocked when the law will not spare him and he suddenly needs "to see a doctor" while in court.

The Minister has thought that money opens all doors. His influence and connections do get Aloho acquitted and discharged for lack of evidence, even though she has been caught red-handed with the cocaine at the airport. However, he himself is eventually arrested and is sentenced to a long jail term.

Besides his corruption, Chief Ade-Amaka is lecherous. He represents depraved "big" men who prey on young women and abuse them sexually in return for small favours and financial reward. He lures the vulnerable Aloha into his web and methodically inflicts physical, emotional and psychological pain on her. This treatment leaves Aloha devastated and leads to her early death.

Chief Ade-Amaka's end encapsulates the theme of corruption in the play. Corruption is evil, and those who indulge in it should not end well. The likes of Judge, Yakubu and Inspector Inaku show that it is possible not to be corrupt.

Points to note:

(a) Chief Ade-Amaka as Minister of External Affairs.

(b) His being an example of corruption and depravity in politicians and leaders.

(c) His exploitation of vulnerable women for sex and illicit business.

(d) His responsibility for Aloho's trauma and early death

(f) His arrest and deserved punishment, thus storing some faith in state institutions.

Correct Answer: D. comedy of errors

Correct Answer: A. simile

Correct Answer: C. heroic couplets

Explanation

The play is about conflict between tradition and modernity. Payment of the bride price is strictly attached to traditional marriage. Lakunle refuses to pay the traditional bride price for Sidi, losing her to Baroka.

Lakunle is a 'half-baked' educated young village teacher who places western values above traditional customs, including the payment of bride price. Sidi is the village beauty, she is simple, naive and has an overblown image of herself. She is the Jewel' of lujinle. She represents African traditional values. Baroka is the traditional ruler of lujinle and is 62 years. He upholds customs and employs wit and cunning to lure Sidi to join his many wives. He is the Lion of lujinle

Sadiku is the oldest wife of Baroka whom he inherited from the late chief, Okiki.She is simple- minded and used by Baroka to find other women to be his wives.

Lakunle's approach Sidi and criticizes traditional background, uneducated and uncultured.

Baroka sends Sadiku to Sidi with his proposal, Sadiku promises Sidi wealth, honour and prestige he sees Sidi as ignorant, if married to Baroka also praises Sidi's beauty and invites her to supper with Baroka at the palace and Baroka wins Sidi's love and later shares the secret of his impotence with Sadiku and Sadiku breaks the secret to Sidi, she goes to mock Baroka at his palace, Baroka lured Sidi to bed and she was shocked to discover the truth; Baroka is not impotent then Sidi snobs Lakunle for Baroka.

Correct Answer: A. anxiety

Correct Answer: B. ballad

Correct Answer: B. scenery

Explanation

The poem presents a picture of chaos and, destruction brought about by an African thunderstorm. Images abound - the poem to present an atmosphere of confusion at the approach of the storm.

In stanza one, the clouds are said to be "hurrying with the wind". This metaphor emphasizes the speed of the storm a-id the imminent destruction. The wind seems to be impatient in its mission. The destructive nature of the thunderstorm compared, in a powerful simile, to that of locusts.

Another simile compares the wind's indiscriminate movement in its path to that of a mad man. The metaphor "pregnant clouds" suggests the inevitability of a heavy downpour and the threat which it carries. The clouds are "like dark sinister wings" suggesting the evil which they portend. Trees bend in obeisance to the "whistling The final stanza of the poem expresses the reactions of those who find themselves in the path of the storm. While the children are excited, the women "dart about" taking things out of the harm's way.

The effect of the storm on the women is graphically expressed. They are stripped almost naked by the force of the wind. The last four lines which climax the poem vividly present the atmosphere of fear which culminates in the arrival of the storm. The language used in the poem encapsulates the feeling of fear, chaos and uneasiness that the African thunderstorm

Other examples of language use include alliteration and onomatopoeia, as in "whistling wind", "rumble, tremble and :rack" of the thunderstorm and the "pelting march of the storm." Personification is used to describe the cloud as pregnant" and the wind whistling as trees bend to let it pass. The entire poem is full of images of movement, hearing and sight.

Correct Answer: D. dirge