UPPER SIXTH ARTS 

LITERATURE – PROSE 

TSITSI DANGAREMBGA-NERVOUS CONDITION 

The stream of consciousness  

Technique is a device narrative which attempts to convey at random all of a 

character’s mind to the flow of experiences that he/she passes through. It can be 

achieved through flashbacks, themes, setting and through other characters 

description. 

Examples of the stream of consciousness technique in nervous condition. - Tambu’s experience at the Homestead with Nhamo’s patriarchal behavior. - Tambu’s opinion about her uncle, Babamukuru when she goes to the mission 

house - Tambu’s views on the discrimination of women and emancipation 

Questions: 

 Examine the various instance of the stream of consciousness technique as 

used in nervious condition. 

 

Instructor – Njuh Mallick 

 

https://cameroongcerevision.com/a-level/cameroon-gce-questions-mathematics-a-level/
 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LESSON NO 3

WEEK BEGINNING 23RD TO 27TH MARCH 2020

 

 

LESSON NO 4 : REVISION QUESTIONS FOR GEOGRAPHY

WEEK BEGINNING 23RD TO 27TH MARCH 2020

 

UPPER SIXTH REVISON QUESTIONS FOR GEOGRAPHY

1A) With the aid of a sketch map of cameroon locate the main drainage in Cameroon (5mks)

b) explain the various characteristics of drainage in Cameroon (5mks)

c) examine the role of climate in the spatial  distribution of crop farming system in Cameroon (15mks)

2a) describe the spatial distribution of water resources in Cameroon ( 10mks)

b) show how water resources have been used to mitigate any of the problems of agriculture in Cameroon (15mks)

3a) explain the differences between ferralitic soils ferruginous soils (10mks)

b) what role have soils played in the spatial pattern of food crop productivity (15mks)

4a) describe the main relief of Cameroon

b) to what extent is relief the most influential factor of livestock productivity in Cameroon (17mks)

5a) “ a remoteness and poor accessibility constitute mayor obstacles in the full exploitation of natural resources” substances the truth of this statement with reference to Cameroon (15mks)

b) what contribution have been made by the exploitation of these resources to the socio economic development of the country (10mks)

6) explain how the following factors influence the climate of Cameroon

i) AIR MASSSES (8MKS)

ii) Relief (9mks)

iii) Distance from the sea (9mks)

7) a) Briefly describe the difference in the concentration of population within the western high and the south Cameroon low plateau (8mks)

b) To what extent do these differences reflect the human and economic geography of the region (17mks)

 

LESSON NO 5

WEEK BEGINNING 23RD TO 27TH MARCH 2020

 

Upper Sixth Economics .

        Questions and interpretation guide.

1a) How do commercial banks create credit?

b)In what ways can the Bank of Central African states control  this credit creation.

2)The Phillips curve is not relevant to the realities  of the economy of Cameroon" Discuss.

3) Trade protecting: trade liberalisation are both government policies,how would you advice the government on these policies?.

4)If the theory of international trade points to the benefits of international specialisation there is no need for the government to intervene in trade.Discuss.

 5a) Differentiate between injections and leakages in various types of economies.

  b).With the use of a diagram ,show how they can be used to determine equilibrium national income in a close but governed economy.

 

            INTERPRETATION GUIDE.

1) you explain the process of credit creation like Mr A deposited 20000 assuming the cash ratio of 10 % .Mr B comes to borrow ,the process continue .Desmostrate using two stages and conclude with the credit multiplier which is 1/cash ratio times the original deposit.

b) The monetary instruments like OMO ,Moral suation etc.

2) Question( 2) first go and try to attempt on your own.

3) Define the keys words like trade protection and free trade.Explain at least five reasons for trade protection and five benefits of free trade. Conclude by saying the government should use both because they are all beneficial.

  NB : A teacher is a facilitator : work on the rest and get back to you ,I'm there to clear your doubt and you are not clear let me know. 

            BEST OF  LUCK MY PEOPLE.

 

LESSON NO 6

WEEK BEGINNING 23RD TO 27TH MARCH 2020

LETERATURE IN ENGLISH U6

Discussion Questions on Hamlet by William Shakespear

Act I

Guide questions use to analyze the text.

What is "rotten in the state of Denmark," as Marcellus tells us? What do we learn about the situation in Scene I? In Scene II?

1) In what ways is Scene II a contrast to Scene I? What do we learn about Gertrude, Claudius, and Hamlet in this scene?

2) What is the function of the Polonius-Ophelia-Laertes family in this play? What parallels exist between their situation and that of the ruling family?

3) What does Hamlet learn from the Ghost's speech?

Act II

1) Why does this act open with Polonius and Reynaldo? What does this tell us about Polonius's character, and what theme or motif does it introduce in the play?

2) How does the interaction between Hamlet and Rosencrantz and Guildenstern help to explain what's wrong with Hamlet? Why are Rosencrantz and Guildenstern in Denmark?

3) The First Player's speech is often cut in performances of the play. Explain why it is important and why it should not be cut.

4) Hamlet's "O what a rogue and peasant slave am I" is the first of his soliloquies. What is he saying, and how does this set of words help to move him to action?

5)What does he decide to do at the end of this speech?

Act III

1) What is the subject of Hamlet's second soliloquy, the famous "To be or not to be" speech?

2) Why is he so cruel to Ophelia immediately thereafter?

3)What happens in the "play-within-a-play"?  How do the speeches and actions reflect on events in the kingdom of Denmark?  How does the king respond?

4) In what way is Hamlet's second major interaction with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern (III.ii.375-415) different from his first encounter with them?

5) Why does Hamlet decline to take action against Claudius in III.iii?

6) What happens in III.iv (the closet scene)?  Why is this death so important for the play, or what does the death of this figure represent?

7) Based on what you've seen in III.iv, do you think Gertrude knew about the murder?

Act IV

1) Is Hamlet really mad in this play, or is merely pretending to be mad? (Find lines that support your answer.)

2) A foil is a character who is like the protagonist in some respects but who has contrasting qualities that "reflect" or illuminate the traits of the main character.� Who are Hamlet's foils, and in what ways do their characters shed light on his?

3) Do Hamlet and Fortinbras meet in IV.iv? Why is this significant?

4) Why is Ophelia mad?  Does anything she say make sense? What happens to her at the end of Act IV? What does her madness and death symbolize about the kingdom?

5) Look at the scene with Laertes and Claudius (IV.vii). What plans do they have for Hamlet? How does this scene establish Laertes as a foil for Hamlet?

6) Why is Hamlet less present in this act than in the previous three?

Act V

1) Why does this scene begin with two clowns trading jokes?  Do their jokes make any sense in the context of the play?

2) Where do Hamlet and Laertes fight in V.ii?

3) Who is Osric, and why is he included in the play?

4) Does Hamlet realize that he might not come out of this fight alive? See V.ii.225-238.

5) What is the outcome of the fight scene at the end?

6) When Gertrude drinks from the cup, Claudius asks her not to drink and she refuses.  Has she ever disobeyed Claudius before?

7)Who is alive at the end of the play, and how do the others meet their ends?

8) Why is Fortinbras's presence important?

 

LESSON NO 7

WEEK BEGINNING 23RD TO 27TH MARCH 2020

 

Philosophy A’level questions and answers 2018 GCE presented by Nfon Emmanuel (LLM LAW)

 

Q5: Can it be justifiably asserted that man is responsible for his acts ?

 

Introduction:

Backgroung Idea: man by nature is a gregarious and moral being, who engages in actions of one sort or another, which might be voluntary or determined.

 

Definition of key terms/ explanation of terms

Man: the rational thinking being who engages in actions

Responsibiility: accountability

Actions: the performance of acts  of the consciously or unconsciously; doing something for a purpose .

 

Problematic: Is man totally/ fully responsible for all the acts which he performs ? (5mks)

 

Body

A: Man can be fully responsible for his acts

- Man is responsible for his acts - acts which have cognitive(known) conative (deliberate) and free inclination

- There is responsibiility for acts of actual intention( one that a person is conscious of at the moment of performing the intended act)and virtual intention

- Acts if the will are intentional acts or responsible acts, for there is voluntariness, since it is one that is mastered and can be consciously controlled  and deliberated

 

B: Man as not fully responsible for his acts

- man is not fully responsible for  acts of man - they are not consciously controlled or deliberately willed, foreample, acts done in infancy, sleep, insanity

- Acts which are determined do not have full responsibility for they lack free will and deliberation of the agent

 

- One cannot fully be responsible for acts of invincible ignorance.

 

Conclusion

- General summery

- Personal Judgement

- perspectives

 

Philosophy 790 GCE 2015 questions and answers paper 2.

Subject master: Nfon Emmanuel (LLM LAW) 23/03/2020

 

Q1.  »Being is One ». Justify this Eleatic assertion.

 

Answer guide:

Introduction

Background idea: Faced with nature, the early Greek thinkers before Socrates confronted it with an interrogative attitude, by posing basic questions on what thinks really are, from cosmological and especially ontological perspectives

Definition of key terms :

Being- the fundamental nature( essence) of things .

One- that which is unique; changeless; permanent.

Eleatics- the earlly Greek thinkers before Socrates who approached nature ontologically

Proponents -Parmenides and Zeno.

Problematic-To what extent can it be asserted that Being to the Eleatics is basically one? (5mks)

 

Body

A: The oneness of Being to the Eleatics

- In an attempt to explain nature and to know what things really are, the Eleatics asserted that pure Being is one and All persist. Being is one and cannot change

- Being is permanent, continuous and motionless. It is uncreated and indestructible. It has no beginning and no end and lacks nothing .

- The plurality if Being is an absurdity- reason tells us that if there is a single substance from which all things come, then it is unchangeable- Parmenides

- Zein’s assertion that one should understand the world not through the senses but through reason (philosophical reflection) - the paradoxes

 

B: Being as not necessarily one

- Though the Milesians asserted that all of nature comes from one substance,(monistic approach) they nevertheless observed that there is motion in nature.

- The one can become many and the many can become many- unity in diversity, the views of the mlesians, Heraclitus and the Pythagorean’s . [ views of Milesians- Thales- water, which is the sole source of reality can take different forms by the process of evaporation , condensation ; Anaximander- Apeiron has eternal motion where things come to be and céda to be, but it endures. Anaximenes- Aire can take the different forms of nature by the process of condensation and rare faction ]

- There is constant change in the nature of the basic stuff (fire) (everything is made up of contraries, opposites and strives , occasioned by ceaseless but orderly movements - All things are in flux and «  one cannot cross the same water twice » views of Heraclitus.

 

Synthesis

Thé Eleatics after making their observation observed that change is an illusion resulting from the deceptive nature of the human ssensés and this provoked the milesians who maintained that change is a reality

 

Conclusion

- General summery

- personal judgement

- perspectives

 

Philosophy A,level GCE 2018 questions and answer guided by Nfon Emmanuel (LLM LAW) 25/03/2020

 

Q6. Is philosophy diametrically opposés to Religion ?

 

Introduction

N

BI: There has been a general debate among scholars and philosophers as to the relationship between philosophy and Religion

 

Definition of key terms/Explanation of terms:

Philosophy- critical and rational explanation of everything both rational and supernatural.

Religion - Mans absolute dependence on a supernatural entity

Diametrically- totally; completely contrasted, opposed/contradict/antithetical

 

Problematic : Can one assert that philosophy and religion are totally contrasted to each other?

 

Body

A: philosophy and Religion as Diametrically opposed

* philosophy and Religion are different in their objects.

- The basis of philosophy is reason while that of Religion is faith

-Descartes in his Meditation On First Philosophy, was dissatisfied with the scholastics « credo ego sum »meaning « I believe therefore I exist », believe or faith is more based on  dogmatism than on rational justification, to him , « cogito ergo sum » meaning » I think, therefore I am ».

* Thé two disciplines differ in their approach of truth. Truth is philosophy is relative/ subjective and rectificative. It is constantly open to questioning , since nothing is taken for granted . But in Relihion truth is absolute and final. It is based on dogmatism and at times considers critics as heretics. Ref. Copernicus during the medieval period.

 

B: philosophy and Religion are complementary

* They both seek for truth and understanding of reality

- They need to understand and explain mans relationship with nature and God

- seeking for knowledge about God, and his existence. St Thomas Aquinas » Reason dose not destroy faith but perfects it »

* Both proceed by intuition

- philosophy sees intuition as the starting point for further analysis and debate. Descartes said intuition is the mental power of the mind where things can be conceived by the mind clearly and without fear of illusion

- Religion sees intuition as as the final truth that can be depended upon

 

Synthesis

 

Philosophy and Religion complement each other in an effort to understand God , reason enlightens faith with revealed truth, one can interpret all in the light of certainty : hence the scholastic view that philosophy is the handmaid of religion .

 

Conclusion:

- General summery

-personal judgement

- perspectives

 

LESSON NO8

WEEK BEGINNING 23RD TO 27TH MARCH 2020

 

Upper Sixth Literature in English

                                               Poems of Black Africa by Wole Soyinka

 

Continuation of Richard Nitru's Poems

“To the Living”

This poem centers on the mysterious power of the ancestors and the inability of the living to understand the spiritualism of the dead. The poem takes an apostrophic form which is a direct address to the living. The poet says that only those who have survived the final anaesthetization, the ancestral spirit; those who have staged the final scene of life's drama are foresighted with the knowledge to understand the hidden mysterious of life. Only these can therefore partake in the dance of the spirits. He goes on to declare that only the dead who have that sacred knowledge of approving with cold senseless nodding as they watch in the utterly quite night when naked priests perform certainly rituals in deadly excitement: they bless multi-coloured amulets wound on the amphorae shaped pelvicbones of virgins and celebrate the death day of a man who died on his wedding night.

Only these, the spirits of the dead having exchanged their remains and resigned to the brutal form of salvation that exposes them to corrosive dew as they lie in their cold graves, can understand the great force of silence that follows when two echoes converge in a haunted cave. In a rhetorical tone, the poet seeks to know who other than such ancestral spirits are imbued with the mystical prowess to walk beyond glimmering twilight between sleep and waking; who rather warm themselves under a straight sunlight at night; who breath the cool daytime dark breeze, who have experienced the realization of the inevitable dream death and are this conscious of the power of rebirth that lurks in the cold lifeless blood of the dead?

In contrast to natural mystical powers of the dead, we the Living worship worthless totems as symbols of ancestral heritage and turn away from the natural operation like the sunlight which can generate comfortable warmth but can be hot enough to melt the innocence of butter on our palms. Therefore, when the living raise their naked hands in prayer request to ancestral God’s like Nyabingi, such hands that embrace all sort of evil, what then will be our dream expectation?

Points of Interest

The poem justifies the African belief in the presence of ancestral spirit within the living and the ignorance of the living to understand the mystical powers of such ancestors. In soliciting help from them, the living rather worship worthless totems under the guise of venerating ancestral spirits.  The poet therefore exposed the limitations of the living who do not know how to  relate with the spiritualism of the ancestors.

The poem also shows marks of African personality that is witchcraft and sorcery. That is, the ritual dance, mesmerizing over the antiamulet on a virgin’s pelvicbones, dancing to the rhythm of the drum played with the thighbone of a man who died on his wedding night, celebrating prenatal death days among others.

The strange experiences in the poem convey the weirdness of ancestral spirits. The poem's apostrophic form also conveys the sense of drama, frankness and immediacy as the attention of the living is focused to gain knowledge of the sacred mystery behind the existence of the ancestors.

 

                                                     SOUTH AFRICA

Arthur Nortje

About the poet

 He was born in 1942 in Oudtshoorn in the Cape Province of South Africa. He studied in Port Elizabeth, segregated University College of the Western Cape and at Jesus College, Oxford. He taught in Canada for sometimes and later returned to Oxford where he died in 1970.

                                

   Letter from Pretoria Central Prison

The poet recounts his prison experience in the form of a letter to a dear one, probably his wife. He begins by acquainting her of the routine life in prison, that is getting up at 6.a.m in a full rainy and frosty spring dawn, listening to the familiar rumbling of bowels that negotiate farts at the dark grimy corridors stinking like decomposing bodies. A distant light  intruding through the darkness helps him to have a snappy bath by merely washing his face in an iron basin. They are escorted by the wardens of their penal site- a smithy where he ranks as a highly respected blacksmith of the block. Here, they are so absorbed by active work such that the hours pass so speedily like the Sparks in the furnace of the smithy. He hammers metals with such skill that he sweats all over his muscles and for the  time being, he forgets of the world outside the prison life. It is only when he stops working and his mind being at rest that  he can imagine himself listening to soothing words penetrating through the fibers of his muscles.

He goes on to console his wife that he is in no way  unhappy for having been reduced to a common prisoner, therefore neutralized as an activist. She is urged to take a firm decision either today or the next day to champion the cause of the oppressed people and fill up the gap created by his imprisonment, in pavement crowds with refined ideas which should contribute to the struggle for liberation. He goes on by making her not to feel depressed with the thought of their feeding  by assuring her that they are fed regularly. He says that for the most part of the evening, he spends his leisure in reading novels like those of Jane Austen, to gather sense and match it with sensibility. He feeds her mind with the romantic world of nature that surrounds the prison yard, that is the green trees above the wall, their leaves that provide cool shelter in the sunshine, the blossoming monastic white flowers that  spring in the yard squared by the cleanest stone he has ever walked on. Sentinels could be seen smoking in their guard boxes letting the smoke curl through the barbed wire fringing the fortress walls.

He also informs her of other leisure activities that they engage in such as listening to music and watching movies. But this does not last for long because at exactly 4p.m you are sent back to the cell. He cautions her not to laugh at his strict routine life that he has been accustomed to. He concludes by encouraging his wife on the treatment of the kidney infection that she informed him she was following up at the hospital. He imagines a smart nurse serving her grape fruit and tea; that is good enough for her troublesome kidney. He would have wished to continue writing but had to stop having occupied the space that the sheet could provide ordering her to reply to the letter specifying the date of her reply.

 

Points of Interest

The poem certainly reflects the arbitrary arrest and detention that black activists were subjected to under the oppressive apartheid regime of South Africa. The poet had lived the experience in one of such detention camps. He therefore recounts an eyewitness account of the dehumanizing treatment that he and others were subjected to, that is getting up at 6a.m in a chilly dawn greeted by the nauseating stench of the clammy corridor not given anytime to have a bath, robbed to strenuous labour in a blacksmithing workshop, given just a few hours for leisure then locked up in the cell again at 4p.m.

 In spite of this maltreatment, the poet emerges as a hero rather than resign to the image of an oppressed victim. He then consoles his wife in a letter that the prison experience is not all that degrading as he feels at home by having his regular meal, comforts himself with leisure pastimes, surrounded with beautiful nature. He encourages his sick wife not to feel his absence at the hospital as she undergoes kidney treatment.

The poem also projects the nobility of an African personality, that is the cheerful endurance and social resignation to suffering characterized by the heroic resistance of the blacks to the evil and tyrannical regime of apartheid.