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AN AFRICAN VILLAGE
Words/Meaning and Summary

Words / Meaning

S.No.	Words	Meanings
1.	Activity	Being active, A thing that a person or group does or has done.
2.	Agriculture	Farming
3.	Aluminium	Light silver white metal
4.	Beans	An edible seed
5.	Beast	Wild-animals
6.	Bush-dwellers	People living in bushes
7.	Century	One hundred
8.	Compounds	An area surrounded by fences or walls that contains a group of buildings
9.	Consists	Composed of
10.	Continent	A very large area of land, such as Africa or Asia, that consists of several countries. .
11.	Courtyard	Compound
12.	Cultivate	To grow
13.	Circular	Round in shape
14.	Dense	Thick
15.	Earthenware	Pot made of clay
16.	Electricity	Power, Energy
17.	Export	A product or service sold abroad.
18	Facility	Convenience
19.	Furniture	Furnishings
20.	Firmly	Strongly
21.	Forest	Jungle
22.	Grind	Break into powder
23.	Groundnuts	A type of peanuts
24.	Inhabitant	People living in a place
25.	Introduce	Acquaint
26.	Independent	Free
27.	Lanes	Narrow street
28.	Link	Relation, Join
29.	Mosquito	A small insect
30.	Patch	Apart of something marked out from the rest
31.	Pepper	A hot tasting powder used in food
32.	Plaster	A soft mixture of sand, cement and sometimes lime water, for spreading on walls, ceilings etc
33.	Plantains	Bananas
34.	Poultry	Hen and ducks etc
35.	Pile	A large quantity
36.	Protect	To save
37.	Pots	Pottery
38.	Remote area	Distant area
39.	Reed	Tall grass
40.	Remote	Distant
41.	Separate	Different
42.	Settlement	Area inhabited  by people
43.	Sting	A small sharp-pointed organ of insects
44.	Scatter	Disperse
45.	Space	Vacant Place
46.	Tend	To look after
47.	Thatch	Cover (a roof or a building) with straw or a similar material.
48.	Transport	Conveyance
49.	Utensils	Cooking-pots
50.	Undergrowth	Bushes under big tree
51.	Yield	Produce
52.	Yam	The edible starchy tuber

Short note Or Summary on AN AFRICAN VILLAGE

Nigeria is the largest country of West Africa. A Nigerian village may consist of a dozen to about three dozen huts. Formerly a farmer's hut was a single room. Now, bigger and better huts are built and more modern building methods and materials are used. A farmer's house may now have two or more rooms. Close to the farmer's dwelling is a patch of land for growing food crops which include plantains, potatoes, yams, groundnuts and pepper. Usually, women look after the food crops while men tend the cash crops like oil-palms and cocoa trees. Cocoa beans and powder is obtained from cocoa fruit which are also the major export of Nigeria. In many parts of Africa, farmers cannot rear cattle on account of a kind of fly whose sting kills the cattle and causes sleeping sickness among human beings. He may, however, keep a goat for milk, and poultry for eggs. The bush-dwellers are being introduced to the modern facilities of transport and communications. They will soon be connected by road with towns and cities.