Literature-In-English Paper 2 WASSCE (SC), 2023

Question 3      ALEX AGYEI-AGYIRI: Unexpected Joy at Dawn

What impression do you form of Mama Orojo?

 

This was a popular question. Those who answered it were able to identify the character Mama Orojo. Some only narrated the portions of the stories that relate to Mama Orojo.

Candidates were expected to discuss:

  • The relation to the theme of social dysfunction exhibited in the form of corruption, illicit dealings, trickery, swindling, opportunism, and xenophobia, among others.
  • character identification of Mama Orojo.
  • Mama Orojo as a successful businesswoman: has six contracts lined up for her company and expands her business by buying and selling minerals in Ghana.
  • Mama Orojo as a religious woman: she is a staunch member of Amen Kristi; she is the treasurer and financial pillar for the church; she has great influence over the pastors and elders of the church.
  • Mama Orojo as a courageous woman: she saves Paleo’s daughter from the blazing building; saves the chairman of Amen Kristi from the burning bus; travels to Ghana in search of her brother, Nii Tackie; ventures into difficult and dangerous line of business – dealing in minerals from   Ghana; heroically conveys the corpse of Nii Tackie’s wife, Massa, from Koforidua to Sampa and gives her a befitting funeral, something which Nii Tackie could not do.

Candidates’ performance was good.