Excerpt 2: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts
FATHERS OF NATIONS EXCERPT 2 : Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow. (25 marks) "Why do you want to steal my wife?" "The word I used is 'marry'. You prefer 'steal'?" "What good is she to you?" Kimani cursed himself for that wording: he had degraded not only his wife but also himself, and in the same breath, upgraded his foe. "What good is she to me? Because she is much older than I am? — is that what you mean? Then hear my answer. Old is gold." Mr Walomu's opponents had a different answer: ' 'When a cat gets into a pigeon coop," they said, "it kills all the pigeons it finds there, not just those it will eat". Mr Walomu had already eaten three pigeons and now had in his paws a fourth: Asiya. Strewn along his path, lay many others he had killed but not eaten. So who could say for sure that,months hence, Asiya would not become one of these? Mr Walomu's opponents continued. "…
