Question 17
Interpersonal and Inter-communal RelationshipsWASSCE 2016: Iwuya and Ipaja (cartoon dialogue)
The Headmaster: Come together! with Iwuya? Never!
Dodowa: Look Ayo, Iwuyas are monsters or worse. If you ever have to choose between the Iwuya man and a serpent, spare the serpent but slay the Iwuya man. He is more deadly than the latter.
Ayo: I have read of the fierce struggle between Ipaja and Iwuya in the decades preceeding the coming of the British. But why raise it now? Is every new day, every new age, just like the preceeding one to your two peoples? Don't you know that our people want the hatchets of yesterday's wars buried, or at least left in the museums.
Dodowa: Look Ayo, Iwuyas are monsters or worse. If you ever have to choose between the Iwuya man and a serpent, spare the serpent but slay the Iwuya man. He is more deadly than the latter.
Ayo: I have read of the fierce struggle between Ipaja and Iwuya in the decades preceeding the coming of the British. But why raise it now? Is every new day, every new age, just like the preceeding one to your two peoples? Don't you know that our people want the hatchets of yesterday's wars buried, or at least left in the museums.
The remarks of Ayo in the above dialogue portray the importance of
- A.struggle against British imperialists.
- B.museum for keeping old weapons of war.
- C.modern methods of conflict resolution.
- D.peace for societal progress and development.
Show the answer and explanation
Answer: D (peace for societal progress and development.)
Explanation
Ayo wants old wars forgotten so the people can live in peace and move forward.