Wonders of Wanda

 PLOT SUMMARY Sins of the Fathers is a story set in Borrowdale and Bulawayo, with most of the events taking place in Borrowdale. The title implies that children have to, sometimes, pay for the sins committed by their parents. In the story, Rondo loses his two daughters and father-in-law just because his father, Mr. Rwafa, hates his wife, Selinah, and does not like the fact that Rondo's first child is a girl and not a boy like he had expected. Mr. Rwafa dislikes Selinah because she's a Madzviti Ndebele, while he is Zezuru Karanga, two ethnic groups that had a deadly fight in the past.  Rwafa's hatred for Selinah makes him orchestrate an accident in which Rondo's father-in-law, Basil Mzamane, and his two daughters die. Rondo mourns his daughters so much. He then decides to avenge their death by killing his father. He takes his pistol, but does not even know how to hold it. Selinah is also in the room with another gun, but Rwafa chooses to shoot himself with his service gu...

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Welcome to Wonders of Wanda, We analyze and provide detailed information on all literature materials KCSE candidates need. In-depth analyses of set texts and poems are our main priority. Also, information on the history of different African communities is available on this blog.  Our Mission Our mission is a very simple one: To provide much-needed analyses of literary texts to learners who find it difficult to understand the novels, short stories, plays, poems and oral literature as taught in class.  What we Offer : Analyses of: Fathers of Nations All stories in A Silent Song and other Stories The samaritan A Parliament of Owls Artist of the Floating World 

Plot Summary Ivory Bangles is the story of a woman who loses her life after an attack by an angry bull elephant. The story unfolds with a flashback that recounts how the woman's husband, who is the chief's councillor, had visited a seer after seeing speckles of blood on the liver of a goat he had slaughtered. The seer had consulted his pebbles, and they said that someone, a wife, would die because the spirits were jealous of a happy wife who had never been molested by her husband since marriage until she became a grandmother. The only way to run away from this fate is by giving her a ritual beating. The wife claims that this is a trick by the seer since he had wanted to marry her and even promised to put a spell on her. So, she hatches a plan to trick the spirits and make them believe that her husband has beaten her. She was supposed to go to her late parents' homestead, weeping while complaining that her husband had beaten her without any reason. She would then refuse to g...