BONDO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE BONDO UNIVERSITY COLLEGE 
UNIVERSITY EXAMINATION 2012/2013 
1ST YEAR 2ND SEMESTER EXAMINATION FOR THE 
DEGREE OF BACHELOR OF EDUCATION ARTS/SCIENCE 
WITH IT (REGULAR) 


COURSE CODE: ALI 104 
TITLE: PROSE IN EAST AFRICA 
DATE: 4/12/2012 TIME: 8.00-10.00AM 
DURATION: 2 HOURS 

INSTRUCTIONS 

1. This paper contains FIVE (5) questions 
2. Answer question 1 (Compulsory) and ANY other 2 Questions 
3. Write all answers in the booklet provided 
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Q1.” Art expresses common cultural values, reveals areas of tension and strain in 
interpersonal relationships and relates concerns and troubles people face in dealing with 
lues, reveals areas of tension and strain in 
interpersonal relationships and relates concerns and troubles people face in dealing with 

their environment.” 

Is this a fair assessment of the thematic concerns of the East African prose you have 
studied in this course? (30Marks) 

Q2 Explore the assertion that betrayal of social values and consequent awareness of guilt 
runs throughout Ngugi wa Thiongo’s novel, A Grain of Wheat. (20Marks) 

Q3 “Popular literature is a literature without vision, one whose writers give no hope to 
their characters.” Respond to this statement drawing your illustrations from Meja 
Mwangi’s The Cockroach Dance and/or Ben Mtobwa’s Dar es Salaam By Night. 
(20Marks) 

Q4 Select any two short stories from Grace Ogot’s Land Without Thunder and relate their 
social cultural relevance to East African society. (20Marks) 

Q5 “Freedom from the colonial master does not seem to have left the inhabitants of East 
Africa free from oppression.” Do you agree? Citing examples from Yusuf Dawood’s 

novel , Return to Paradise, support you view. 
(20Marks) 

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