Directions: Based on the situation presented in the poem, identify at least three effects of war to people and community.

Question

Several countries in the world, including our own, experience war. For whatever reason it may be, the ones who suffer are the ordinary citizens. As they say, in war, nobody wins; everyone loses.

Bio-Note: Emmanuel Monychol was born on the outskirts of a town called Tonj in South Sudan. He has studied in South Sudan, Uganda, and in the United Kingdom. Emmanuel devotes most of his free time to writing.

Pre-Naivasha Days

Emmanuel Monychol (An Excerpt)

We used to fight flies and heat

In the bullet ridden grass thatched huts, We lived in the hope of milk and honey.

We tried to share the little we got with guerrilla forces

Who lived in hope too and tried To survive with little or no food and water

 Tyre sandals for shoes and old clothes looted or donated.

Directions: Based on the situation presented in the above poem, identify at least three effects of war to people and community. Present it in a form of a two-stanza poem or a paragraph.

Answer 1

Hope

Cooperation/comrads

frugality/efficiency

Waste not, Want not

Together We stand, divided We fall

Stonger together, or rot & get shot

We Hope not, above all