Fathers of Nations Excerpt 18 Answers
(a) After Kimani fills a vacancy in University of Nairobi's Institute of
Development Studies, he
demands for two changes at the university in
quick succession. What are
these changes? (2 marks)
• Kimani demands his new university strive for relevance to the society, not
excellence of its work.
• Kimani demands that the university becomes an agent of change, not a
mere spectator of it.
(b) Identify
and illustrate three characters traits of Kimani brought out
in this excerpt. (6 marks)
• He is determined/bold/untiring
He is unwavering in his effort to bring changes in his new university.
• Radical/revolutionary
Only a month after arrival at the University of Nairobi, he launches noisy
disputes twice to demand for changes at the university, and prevails.
• He is intelligent/educated
The fact that he had completed his studies at the University of Oxford prior
to getting his new job at the University of Nairobi is an attestation to his
being educated/intelligent.
• He is loving/romantic/admirable
His antics in the wars that he had started and won, win him the heart of a
campus beauty queen.
(c) Discuss three themes
raised in the excerpt. (6 marks)
Corruption
Kimani's new university is corrupt. To ensure he comes and fills the
vacancy at the university, it raises his entry point from that of a lecturer to
that of a senior lecturer.
Change/transition
Kimani demands for drastic changes at the University of Nairobi in quick
succession. His proposed changes are eventually adopted.
Love and marriage
Kimani's antics had already won him the heart of a campus beauty queen.
He and Asiya are later married on a rainy but approving Saturday, to claps
of thunder and flashes of lightning.
Determination/persistence/unwavering
Despite Kimani's colleagues being pessimistic about his effort to bring
changes to the university, he is unwavering in his pursuit of the changes
and it bears fruits.
(d) (i) To
ensure he came and filled it for sure, the University of Nairobi
raised his entry point from
that of a lecturer to that of a senior
lecturer. (Write beginning
with the main clause). (1 mark)
• The University of Nairobi raised his entry point from that of a lecturer to
that of a senior lecturer to ensure he came and filled it for sure.
(i)
(ii) His persona now was complete. (1 mark)
His persona now was complete, wasn't it?
Now he wanted the uniyersity to be an agent of change, not a mere
spectator of it. (Rewrite using a co-ordinating conjunction) (1 mark)
Now he wanted the university to be an agent of change but not a mere
spectator of it?
(e) Identify one stylistic
devices used in the excerpt. (4 marks)
Exaggeration/hyperbole
The writer exaggerates Kimani and Asiya' s marriage: He married her on a
rainy but approving Saturday, to claps of thunder and flashes of
lightning/Kimani's instant success at the university is, too, exaggerated:
Even before taking off, he was already flying.
(f)
Explain the meaning of the
following words used in the excerpt. (4
marks)
Launched — began/initiated/instituted
Henceforth — moving forward/from that moment/time
Prevailed — overcame/succeeded/triumphed/won
(g) The writer
says, 'Had anyone told him this happiness would one day
end as it did, he would
have laughed himself upside down." What later
happened to Professor
Kimani in the text? (2 marks)
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He is demoted by his university to a senior lecturer from his current rank
as a full professor.