a) A delegate from a third country who has gone to seek for funds at IMF World Bank or first world / developed countries to alleviate famine in their countries.
“My rusty inter Nation Begging Bawl….”
“The dearth of food ... rendered my people thin”
b) The poem talks about the misplaced priorities that is usually by the leadership in the underdeveloped nations their leadership consecrates more on how they can waste funds on expensive clothing‘s, luxurious flights when in actual sense the ruled are dying of hunger The donors in response decides to sneer at the leaders for lack of putting their priorities right
c) The leaders of underdeveloped countries insensitively to people’s pressing needs is satirize. The leadership elite concentrate on being on expensive flights, dressed in imported garments while the people are hungry during drought
“But sir, beggars
In three-piece
Are a rare sight
But your suit is beautiful
Honestly
The leaders only concentrate on what benefits them at the expense of its countrymen. The countrymen’s risk death as a result of the extravagant leaders
d) Sarcastic / satirical / bitter tone
Expect illustration
The tone is to bring out the satire on the leaders irony of the leaders’ lives opposed to their subjects (1 mark)
Bitter to bring out the leaders / insensitivity to the plights of the common people
e) The money food aid he /she is supposed to get would have been misused / embezzled by the leaders.
“has denied me a fortune “
And the countrymen are likely to die as a result of starvation
And my countrymen, life’
He has also been denied aid because the donors maintain that he is extravagant and lives a lucrative life.
“In a Parisian Textile” (1 mark)
f) i) He boarded a big plane that cruised at a top speed – the fellow travelled and in an expensive plane
ii) Though expensively dressed, he / she feels uncomfortable about being extravagant as countrymen suffer
iii) Enough food to last them until the rains come back – they depends on nature
Musyoxx answered the question on March 16, 2018 at 17:07
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