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Question 21 : The four sentences (labelled 1, 2, 3 and 4) given below, when properly sequenced, would yield a coherent paragraph. Decide on the proper sequencing of the order of the sentences and key in the sequence of the four numbers as your answer.

1. Contemporary African writing like 'The Bottled Leopard' voices this theme using two children and two backgrounds to juxtapose two varying cultures.
2. Chukwuemeka Ike explores the conflict, and casts the Western tradition as condescending, enveloping and unaccommodating towards local African practice.
3. However, their views contradict the reality, for a rich and sustaining local African cultural ethos exists for all who care, to see and experience.
4. Western Christian concepts tend to deny or feign ignorance about the existence of a genuine and enduring indigenous African tradition.

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Video Explanation

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Explanatory Answer

Sentence 4 introduces the context of Western Christian concepts ignoring the existence of an ‘enduring indigenous African tradition’ making it the best opening sentence.

43 is a strong link because in 3, “ ‘their views’ contradicts the reality of a rich African culture”, ‘their’ refers to the views of ‘Western Christian concepts’ mentioned in sentence 4.

Sentence 1 works as an example of a piece of contemporary African literature that discusses this issue.

Sentence 2 which introduces Chukwuemeka Ike is an additional example of African text that explores the same conflict and hence adding depth to the discussion.

4312 is the correct order.

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The answer is '4312'

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