Excerpt 3: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers
All looked happy, and why
not? Had they not escaped from troublemakers in their home countries?
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Excerpt 3: Fathers of Nations Sample Excerpts with Answers Read the excerpt below and answer the questions that follow : Forty-nine
foreign heads of state were in Banjul for the summit. All looked happy, and why
not?
Had they not escaped from troublemakers in their home countries? They saw a
stay free
from trouble ahead of them here, in the Gambia, a country everyone kept calling
'the land
of Kunta-kinteh'. All hoped to get from their stay as much rest as possible. Of
course, at
some point, they would each other take the flow and, as fans back home
expected, address
the summit, but this was something that they could do with little or no effort
at all. For
Gambians, though, the presence of so many visiting dignitaries was not fun.
True, forty-nine
heads of state could give a hosting country good publicity, but heads of state
are a
huge inconvenience. So, this publicity comes at a high price. Nowhere
is the price higher than it is in Africa. Here, before the dignitaries arrive, bulldozers
dispatched at night in slum-clearance 'exerc…
