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AN AFRICAN VILLAGE
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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.
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