Observation

This question was very straightforward and many candidates attempted it.

Candidates’ responses were expected to contain the following:

• Identification of the major theme of the relationship between the sexes in what is essentially a patriarchal society.
• Character Identification: Yoko is Gbanya’s favourite wife; beautiful, ambitious and head of the dancers; Gbanya is Chief of Senehun and married to thirty-seven women.
• Relationship between male and female: The woman is subservient to the man; Women are not fit for state duties.
• Gbanya refuses to hand over the chiefdom to Yoko.
• All the indications are that the society is patriarchal through and through and that traditional beliefs prevail.
• However, Gbanya defies tradition and hands over the chiefdom to Yoko to punish the conspirators.

Only a few candidates were able to do these; and the performance was fair.