Uneb uce english comprehension paper two 2005

Uneb uce english comprehension paper two 2005

1. Read the following passage carefully and answer the questions that follow:
Most African tribes have a communal approach to life. A person is an individual only to the extent that he is a
member of a clan, a community or family. Land was never owned by an individual, but by the people and couldn’t
be disposed of by anybody. Where there were traditional heads, they held land in trust for the community generally.
Food grown on the land was regarded as food to feed the hungry among the tribe. Although each family might have
its own piece of land to cultivate, when there was famine or someone wanted to simply eat, he merely looked for
food and ate it. It was not a question in his mind as to who owned it. In many parts of Africa it was quite natural
for a travellerto walk into the nearest garden (shamba) and pick some bananas or maize and eat it. Nobody would
interfere with him unless he went in and started taking loads of food away. Then he was of course contravening the
law of hospitality and generosity, and exploiting land through whose land he was passing.

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