Read the text taken from the poem and write down the prevailing messages presented in each one. Choose your answers from the choices given.


Often the target of pity
My future is not confined to charity.

A. My life is always the subject of discrimination.
B. Everything I do always result to judgements.
C. What I do is always belittled by everyone around.
D. People sympathize with me but my future isn’t dependent to it

Give me a dream, a door of opportunity I will thrive,
I am an African child.
A. Help me in everything that I do.
B. Let me dream so I will physically grow and survive.
C. Teach me how to dream and give me a chance to achieve it.
D. Provide me my everything I want so I will become successful.

Teach me discipline, teach me character, teach me hard work
Teach me to think like the star within me
I am an African child
A. Influence me to follow and exactly copy your own traits and attitudes.
B. Educate me with bookish and worldly knowledge so I will be inspired.
C. Appreciate me all the time so I will be inspired to achieve my dreams.
D. Plant good deeds in my character and inspire me to be the best version of myself.

Give me scrap yard and discarded electronics
Give me a broken bicycle; plus, the freedom to be me
And I will build you a windmill.
A. Give me the freedom to do whatever I like to do in my own life.
B. Give me the materials needed in inventing or building a windmill.
C. Give me the opportunities to grow and the chance to create my own identity.
D. Give me all I want so I will achieve my dream to become an inventor of windmill.

We are the new generation Not afraid to be us Uniquely gifted, black and talented.
A. We are the new generation and we are not afraid to commit mistakes.
B. We are gifted, black, talented and never afraid to show the real us.
C. We are not afraid to have a unique color.
D. We are Africans and we accept the skin we are in.