SUNRISE Jwani Mwaikusa. Behold! The sun has arisen, And with it the sons of the land have arisen too Forward they go, Well armed, Singing praises to the beauty of the sunrise, With the determination of long-term warriors, Challenging the enemy With the courage of a free mind And the vigour of a clear purpose. … Read more
LIVE AND LET DIE Kundi Faraja One says that My children are dwarfs That no one seems taller Than the other. That they never take a bath That they are soiled. That they eat lice From their clothes Let them eat, brothers, Until the system changes, Until exploitation ends; Let them eat brother, Because we … Read more
TENSES A tense is any of the forms of a verb that may be used to show the time of the action or state expressed by the verb. Thus we have two tenses in English language; Present tense and Past tense. There is no future tense in English because there are no inflectional endings or … Read more
NTERJECTIONS This is a short sound, word or phrase spoken suddenly to express an emotion or strong feeling. An interjection has no grammatical connection with other words in a sentence. It should be set off with commas or an exclamation mark. For example Oh!, Look out!, Ow!, wow!, whew!, Alas! Hurrah!, bravo!, , shit, Gosh, Bravo, … Read more
CONDITIONAL SENTENCES These are sentences that express a condition that must be fulfilled for something else to take place. There are three types of conditional sentences The first type expresses the conditions that are likely to be fulfilled. The second type is used when the condition is less probable/less likely and; The third expresses the … Read more
ACTIVE AND PASSIVE VOICE Voice is the form of a verb that shows whether the subject of a sentence performs the action (the active voice) or is affected by it (the passive voice). A sentence is said to be in active voice when we are interested in the doer of an action. In passive voice … Read more
DIRECT SPEECH AND INDIRECT SPEECH There are two ways of re-telling what a person has said: direct and indirect. DIRECT SPEECH Here we repeat the original speaker’s exact words: direct speech should be places within the quotation marks or inverted commas. The direct speech is found in conversations in books, in plays and quotations. He said, … Read more
A FREEDOM SONG BY Marjorie Oludhe Macgoye (Kenya) Atieno washes dishes, Atieno plucks the chicken, Atieno gets up early, Beds her sucks down in the kitchen, Atieno eight years old Atieno yo. Since she’s my sister’s child Atieno needs no pay While she works my wife can sit Sewing each sunny day, With her earning … Read more
Eat more fruit!, the slogan say More fish, more beef, more bread But I’m on an employment pay My third year now and wed And so I wonder when I’ll see The slogan when I pass The only one that would suit me Eat more bloody grass! INTRODUCTION Joe Corrie (1894–1968) was a Scottish miner, poet and playwright … Read more
THE CONCUBINE BY ELECHI AMADI THE CONCUBINE BY ELECHI AMADI TITLE: THE CONCUBINE AUTHOR: ELECHI AMADI SETTING: NIGERIA The Concubine by definition: is a woman who, in some societies, lives and has sex with a man she is not married to, and has a lower social rank than his wife or wives. The book title … Read more