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The Lion And The Jewel Noon Flashcards

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What is Sidi doing at the beginning stage directions?

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‘Happily engrossed in the pictures of herself in the magazine’

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What is Lakunle doing at the start of this scene?

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‘Carrying a bundle of firewood which Sidi has set out to obtain’

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What is the first impression we get of Sadiku?

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‘An old woman with a shawl over her head’

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How does Sadiku describe the Bale?

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‘The lion’

‘My lord’

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How does the Bale show respect to Sidi?

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‘He wishes you well’

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How does Sidi show she is not interested in the Baroka and has a lack of respect?

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‘Thank him for me (then excitedly) have you seen these? Have you seen these images of me?’

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How does Sadiku tell Sidi Baroka wants to marry her?

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‘Baroka wants you for a wife’

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How does Lakunle react on hearing the news Baroka wants to marry Sidi?

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‘Bounds forward, dropping the wood’ childlike

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What does Lakunle say in response to Baroka’s wish to marry Sidi?

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‘What! Greedy dog! Insatiate camel of a foolish, doting race’

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What does Sidi say in response to Lakunle’s outburst about Baroka?

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‘Be quiet ‘Kunle. You get so tiresome. The message is for me, not you’

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How does Lakunle try to show his affections for Sidi?

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‘Down on his knees at once. Covers Sidi’s hands with kisses’

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What list of names does Lakunle give Sidi?

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‘My Ruth, my Rachel, Esther, Bathsheba’

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What is significant about the list of names Lakunle gives Sidi?

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Powerful biblical women

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What does Lakunle call the Baroka on hearing he wants to marry Sidi?

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‘Infidel’

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What does Sidi say to Lakunle’s list of names for her?

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‘Now that’s your other game; giving me funny names you pick up in your wretched books’

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How does Sidi describe herself?

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‘My name is Sidi. And now, let me be. My name is Sidi and I am beautiful’

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How did the stranger describe Sidi?

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‘Loveliness beyond the jewels of a throne’

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What does Sidi do in her response to Baroka’s wish to marry her?

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‘Wags her finger playfully at the woman’

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How does Sidi describe Sadiku?

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‘Sadiku of the honey tongue’

‘Head of the Lion’s wives’

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How does Sadiku describe the life of a Bale’s wife?

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‘It is a rich life, Sidi. I know. I have been in that position for forty one years’

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What does Sidi think is the Baroka’s plan?

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‘He sees my worth increased and multiplied above his own.’
‘He seeks to have me as his property where I must fade beneath his jealous hold’
‘Baroka merely seeks to raise his manhood above my beauty he seeks new fame’

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22
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How does Sidi now describe herself?

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‘The jewel of Ilujinle’

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How does Sadiku react to Sidi’s refusal?

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‘Shocked, bewildered, incapable of making any sense of Sidi’s words’

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What does Sadiku say to Sidi in response to her refusal?

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‘But Sidi, are you well? Such nonsense has never passed your lips before.’

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What does Sadiku call Lakunle?

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‘Popinjay’

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How does Sadiku accuse Lakunle?

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‘Have you driven the poor girl mad at last? Such rubbish… I will beat your head for this’

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What does Lakunle call Sadiku?

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‘Old hag’

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What does Sidi want Sadiku to tell Baroka?

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‘I can read his mind, that I will have none of him’

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How does Sidi insult Baroka?

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‘He’s old. I never knew till now he was that old…’

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How does Sidi praise herself while looking at the magasine?

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‘To think I took no notice of my velvet skin. How smooth it is! And no man ever thought to praise the fullness of my breasts’

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How does Sidi react to Lakunle interrupting her?

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‘Ignores the interruption’

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How does Sidi insult the Baroka’s face?

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‘But he- his face is like a leather piece torn rudely from the saddle of his horse’

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How does Sadiku react to Sidi insulting the Baroka’s face?

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‘Sadiku gasps’

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What simile does Sidi use to represent the water on her face?

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‘See how the water glistens on my face like the dew-moistened leaves on a Harmattan morning’

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How does Sidi describe the Baroka’s beard?

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‘This goat-like tuft which I once thought was manly. It is like scattered twists of grass-not even green. But charred and lifeless as after a forest fire’

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How does Sidi compare her and Baroka?

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‘I am young and brimming; he is spent. I am the twinkle of a jewel but he is the hind quarters of a lion’

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How does Sidi describe her eyes?

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‘There’s a deceitful message in my eyes beckoning insatiate men to certain doom’

38
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How does Sidi describe her teeth?

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‘And teeth that flash the sign of happiness, strong and evenly, beaming full of life’

39
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How does Sidi order Sadiku?

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‘Be just, Sadiku’

40
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How does Sadiku react to Sidi insulting the Baroka?

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‘Recovering at last from helpless amazement’

41
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What does Sadiku say in response to Sidi’s insults?

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‘May Sango restore your wits. For most surely some angry god has taken possession of you’

42
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What does the Baroka say if Sidi should refuse the proposal?

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‘Would you at least come to supper at his house tonight?’

43
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How does Baroka praise Sidi?

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‘There is a small feast in your honour. He wishes to tell you how happy he is that the great capital city has done so much honour to a daughter of Ilujinle. You have brought great fame to your people.’

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How does Sidi refuse Baroka’s meal offer?

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‘Do you think I was only born yesterday? (…) Tell your lord that Sidi does not sup with married men’

45
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What does Sidi say about Baroka’s use of meals?

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‘Can you deny that every woman who has supped with him one night becomes a wife or concubine the next?’

46
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How does Lakunle tell Sidi of Baroka stopping the railway progress?

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‘He’s a die-hard rogue sworn against our progress’

47
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What happens in the first part of the mime of the train tracks?

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Prisoners enter. A white surveyor examines his map. A foreman erects a parasol over him and lays out bush comforts (soda siphon, whiskey, geometric sandwiches etc) he directs sweat team where to work and they begin felling, matchet swinging, log dragging to the rhythm of the work gang’s metal percussion

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What happens in the second part of the mime?

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Wrestler enters. Returns with the Bale and leaves. Bull roarer surrounds workers, they falter and then chaos. Bale gives surveyor gift in calabash bowl and is money and kola nuts. Adds more money and a coop of hens. A goat follows and more money. There was a mistake, the track should be the other way and the soil is not suitable. Palm wine, kola nut broken and Baroka’s men help the surveyor pack and leave

49
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As the train mime ends, what does Lakunle call Baroka?

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‘Voluptuous beast’

50
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How does Lakunle describe Baroka’s views on westernisation?

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‘He loves this life too well to bear to part from it. And motor roads and railways would do just that, forcing civilisation at his door. He foresaw it and he barred the gates’

51
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How does Lakunle describe Baroka’s eyes?

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‘Small and always red with wine’

52
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What does Lakunle say about Baroka’s life now?

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‘I sometimes wish I led his kind of life. Such luscious bosoms make his nightly pillow. (…) he must be healthy to keep going as he does. I don’t know what the women see in him’

53
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How does Lakunle describe Sidi as a partner?

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‘My chosen soul-mate’

54
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How is Baroka’s bedroom described?

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‘A rich bedroom covered in animal skins and rugs. Weapons round the wall. Also a strange machine, a most peculiar contraption with a long lever’

55
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What is Baroka having done to him?

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Armpit hairs plucked by his current Favourite

56
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How does the Baroka describe himself?

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‘The panther of the trees’

57
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What is amusing about the Baroka?

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He is having his armpits plucked

58
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How does Baroka tell his favourite wife he will marry another?

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‘You have not time, my dear. Tonight I hope to take another wife’

59
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How does Baroka explain the hair pulling tradition?

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‘And the honour of this task, you know, belongs by right to my latest choice’

60
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How does Baroka describe his favourite wife’s anger?

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‘It was an angry pull; you tried to hurt for I had made you wrathful with my boast. But now your anger flows in my bloodstream. How sweet it is’

61
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How does Baroka describe his favourite wife after the hair pulling?

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‘Vengeful creature’

‘Enemy

62
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What does Baroka say in response to Sidi’s rejection?

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‘It follows the pattern, a firm refusal at the start’

63
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How does Baroka react when Sidi called him old?

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‘She says… that I am old that I am much too old? Did a slight unripened girl say this of me?’

64
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How does Baroka try and prove his manliness?

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‘Did I not at the festival of Rain defeat the men in the log-tossing match?’
‘Do i not still with the most fearless ones hunt the leopard and boa at night?’
‘Did I not, to announce the Harmattan, climb to the top of the silk-cotton tree’
‘Do any of my wives report a failing of my manliness?’

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How does Baroka now describe Sidi after she called him old?

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‘Unfledged birdling’

66
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How does Baroka describe his feelings after his rejection?

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‘Wroth at heart’

67
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How does Baroka react to looking at the magazine now after his rejection?

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‘He heaves a long sigh’

68
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What is Sadiku doing while Baroka looks at the magazine?

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‘Begins to tickle the soles of his feet’

69
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What does Baroka do when he has had enough of the photos?

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‘Flings the book away suddenly’

70
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How does Baroka accept perhaps her rejection was for the best?

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‘Perhaps it is as well’

71
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Why does Baroka think perhaps the rejection is a good thing?

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‘The scorn, the laughter and the jeers would have been bitter. Had she consented and my purpose failed, I would have sunk with shame’

72
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How does Baroka describe Sadiku?

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‘Faithful one’

73
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What does Baroka say about his manhood?

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‘My manhood ended near a week ago’

74
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How does Baroka explain why he wanted Sidi?

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‘I still hoped- a foolish thought I know, but still- I hoped that, with a virgin young and hot within, my failing strength would rise and save my pride’

75
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How does Baroka describe himself after the rejection?

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‘I am withered and unsapped’

76
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How does Sadiku try to console Baroka?

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‘The gods must have mercy yet’

77
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How does Baroka describe human failing?

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‘It’s a human failing never to accept the worst and so I pandered to my vanity’

78
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How does Baroka ‘threaten’ Sadiku?

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‘If you dare parade my shame before the world…’

79
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How does Baroka describe Sadiku once he has talked about her ability to soothe his feet?

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‘Thou art the queen of them all’

80
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How does Baroka describe his current attributes?

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‘How irritable I have grown of late such doubts to harbour of your loyalty’

81
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Why is Baroka annoyed at his age and shame?

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‘A meagre sixty two’
‘But Okiki, my father beat them all producing female twins at sixty seven. Why must I, descendant of these lions, forswear my wives at a youthful sixty two’

82
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How does Baroka describe his veins?

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‘My veins of life run dry’

83
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How does Baroka describe Sadiku’s feet soothing abilities?

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‘Thy plain unadorned hands encase a sweet sensuality which age will not destroy’

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