Question

Mallam Sile

1.Lines 1–20: What is the setting, and what specific detail does the author use to evoke it?

Answer 1

The setting is Zongo street and it is like a "market".

Answer 2

"Mallam Sile" is a short story written by Mohammed Naseehu Ali.

The setting of the story is in Zongo Street in Kumasi, Ghana. Sile, the main character, owns a tea shop in this street. The specific detail that the author uses to evoke the setting is the following:

"His shop was situated right in the navel of Zongo Street—a stone’s throw from the chief’s assembly shed and adjacent to the kiosk where Mansa BBC, the town gossip, sold her provisions."