Question

Answer the following questions :

Koko Village, Nigeria

1. Why are there "three large, empty metal drums" outside Mr. Nana's front door?

2. Why were the drums sent from Italy to Nigeria?

3. What was in the brown paper bag that the Chief received?

4. Why are the drums referred to as "the mountain of death"?

Answer 1

1. Perhaps Mr. Nana brought them there, planning to use them for some domestic purposes or his children rolled them there.

2. The drums were sent from Italy to Nigeria because it is easier dumping chemical in Nigeria than in Italy. Secondly, because, perhaps, the factory owners were not allowed to dump them there in Italy.

3. It was money.

4. They are referred to as "the mountain of death" because they are piled on top of each other very high- like a mountain. They are a sure and definite source of causing death.