1. NGUGI WA THIONGO S.BANCE

3. At the very beginning of chapter 1, NJOROGE had a conversation with his mother. He seemed very happy after that. What was the subject of their conversation?

4. “ I cannot drop the apprenticeship” said KAMAU, NJOROGE’s brother. What is KAMAU being trained for?

5. They rebuilt the road that ran across the land. They also built the long tarmac road and left a name for themselves because some of them went about with black women… Who are they?

6. There were noticeable differences on the landscape. The White settlers’ land was green and was not lacerated into small strips. Give one characteristic of the land of Black people.

7. In the town of Kipanga, how did Black people earn their living?

8. JACOBO owned the land on which NGOTHO (NJOROGE’s father) lived. A/False B/True SWALI 7 How a man who has a land was considered? A/Rich B/Polygamous C/Clever

9. Besides NJOROGE, his mother had another son. What happened to him in the big war?

10. KAMAU is angry and has mixed feelings about his apprenticeship among other things. He then concluded that: “some Europeans are better than Africans.” After your reading, what do you make/ think of this quote?

11. NJOROGE’s father is a very good story teller. He mentioned that: “at the beginning of things, there was only one man (Gikuyu) and one woman (Mumbi)”. This couple seems to represent some biblical characters. Who are they?

12. Despite the financial difficulty of the family, NJOROGE is going to get education while his brother KAMAU completes his apprenticeship in carpentry. The big war and its consequences. The town of Kipanga and the relationship between Black, Indian, and White folks.

13. First day of school NYOKABI’s thoughts on education. JACOBO’s compound and NGANGA’s land Story time & the biblical analogy: “What happened, O Murungu, to the land you gave us?”

14. VASCO DE GAMA led the first European (Portuguese) expedition in the port of Mombasa in 1498.

15. British Protectorate - 1895 The English moved into highlands in early 1900s. Crown Colony of Kenya administered by a British governor in 1920.

16. 1952-1959: the Mau Mau insurgency against the British settlers and the state of emergency. The fighters were from the Kikuyu, Embu, and Meru ethnic groups. Members of the Land Freedom Army captured, tortured, and killed.

17. Independence-1963 KANU (Kenya African National Union) won the general elections. JOMO became the first president. Actual government leaders: President MWAI KIBAKI & Prime Minister RAILA ODINGA.

18. From the 7-4-2-3 (British)to the 8-4-4 (American)education system in 1985. The literacy rate (age 15 and over who can read and write) in Kenya is 85.%. 2003: introduction of Free Primary Education Kimani Maruge, the world's oldest person to start primary school at age…84.

19. 15 airports including the most famous one in Nairobi, Jomo Kenyatta International Airport. The Kenyan highway network with 160,886 Km (100,000 miles) is ranked 31 st in the world.

20. The Masai Tribe The National Parks

21. SOUND OFF Education can be defined as the process through which knowledge, skills, attitudes, and values are imparted for the purpose of integrating the individual in a given society, or changing the values and norms of that society. It is as important in Kenya as it is everywhere else in the world. *How significant it is for you to achieve academic accomplishment? *Do you consider it the ultimate path to accomplish your dreams?

22. Whenever dialogue fails, it can be very disastrous. How far would you go to oppose/support the effort of peace/war?

23. http://www.psywar.org/maumau.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa- 13681341 http://maps.worldmap.org/worldmap/index.html?cn=WA http://international.iupui.edu/kenya/resour ces/Education-in-Kenya.pdf http://africanhistory.about.com/od/biograp hy/a/bio-Kenyatta01.htm