Not My Business Starter A poem by Niyi Osundare

Pre-reading - class discussion: A friend of yours gets into a fight. Do you help her/him? Do you walk away? Why?

Pre-reading - class discussion: You know that another pupil is being bullied. Do you report it? Do you ignore it? Why?

Pre-reading - class discussion: People in other countries are starving to death. Do you ignore it? Do you give money to help? Why?

First Reading 1). What do the first four lines of stanzas 1 to 3 tell you about: The things that happen to people the speaker knows? The way the speaker feels about these things?   2). Who do you think the ‘they’ referred to in lines 1 and 8 might be? 3). What do the last three lines of stanzas 1 to 3 tell you about how the speaker chooses to react to these things?

First Reading  4). What happens in the last stanza? How do you think the speaker feels now? 5). In what ways is Not my Business: about the lives of ordinary people? like a song? 6). What significant happenings does Niyi Osundare portray in Not my Business?