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JAMB Literature in English 2006 Question 29

Question 29

Other Set Texts: African Prose

In Ayi Kwei Armah's Fragments, the fact that Baako ultimately goes mad indicates that

  1. A.the visionary is usually a sacrificial lamb
  2. B.society is incurable
  3. C.man is a fateful being
  4. D.the evils that men do live after them.
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Answer: A (the visionary is usually a sacrificial lamb)

Explanation

Baako refuses to join the materialistic scramble and is broken by his family and society; Armah shows the person of vision being sacrificed by a corrupt society.