Literature-In-English Paper 3 WASSCE (SC), 2020

Question 10

 

Discuss the theme of accommodation in The Anvil and the Hammer.


Observation

 

This was a popular question among the candidates. The forging of the anvil and the hammer to accommodate each other to form a new Africa is left out entirely.

Candidates were expected to discuss the following points:

  • Relation to the theme.
  • The African dilemma.
  • Anvil and the Hammer connoting the violence of a new birth.
  • The product of forging; imperfect Africa.
  • The prospect of the New Africa.
  • Uneasiness of the process of accommodation.

Candidates’ performance was poor.