“Life is Sweet at Kumansenu” Questions

By Abiosheh Nicol, Sierra Leone (1924-1994)

After reading the short story, answer the following questions: (Each question is worth 20 points.)

1. How does Bola explain the death of her first six sons? Bola believed that all of her Six

child that had died, because one of child all the time whose spirit had crept up restlessly

into her womb to be born and mock her.

2. What does Musa tell Bola to do with the corpse of her sixth son? She said to break the

bones of the quiet little corpse and mangle it so that it wouldn’t come back to torment her

alive again

3. What does she do instead? She marked it with a sharp pointed stick at the left buttock.

4. What does Meji say is his reason for suddenly coming to visit his mother and daughter?

He said that “I like returning to you.” He loves his family.

5. What shocking news reaches Bola near the end of the story? That Bola son had been for

the die for the pass two day. Asi die on friend and then he come to bola house the next

the day to say his goodbyes.

6. Extra Credit: Give one example of foreshadowing in the story. (Extra 5 points) That Asi

doesn't have a shadow and when her dither asks about his scary he say “my head would

fall off if I don’t” (150 the short story collections)