Read the following extract from Ama Ata Aidoo's short story, 'The Girl Who Can' and answer the questions that follow: 'Like all this business to do with my legs. I have always wanted to tell them not to worry. I mean Nana and my mother. That it did not have to be an issue for my two favourite people to fight over. But I didn't want either to be told not to repeat that or it to be considered so funny that anyone would laugh at me until they cried. After all, they were my legs…'
Where was Adjoa born? Who were her ‘two favourite people’?
Topic: Setting and characters
Answer
Adjoa was born in Hasodzi, a small village in the central region of Ghana, in West Africa.
Her two favourite people were Nana, her grandmother, and Maami (Kaya), her mother — the two women who brought her up and whose constant disagreement about her forms the story.
Straight recall, but give the details in full: the village name and the country for the first part, and both the relationship and the names for the second. Note for longer questions that the household has three generations of women and no men, which is why Nana’s traditional authority goes unchallenged.