This question is based on SECOND CLASS CITIZEN. Who is Mr Cole?

Analyze the question: The question asks about Mr Cole, a character in Buchi Emecheta's Second Class Citizen.

Concept: The novel follows Adah, a determined Igbo girl. She fights for an education in Lagos and later moves to London with her husband Francis. The story has two main settings:

• Lagos (early chapters): Adah's childhood, her struggle to attend school, and her father's death.
• London (later chapters): Her life as an immigrant, her troubled marriage, and her work as a writer and mother.

Solution:

1. Option A (a black tenant in England) is wrong. Her London landlords and neighbours, such as Trudy and the Nigerian tenants, do not include Mr Cole.
2. Option B (a colleague at the Consulate) is wrong. Her work colleagues there are different characters.
3. Option C (a nephew she lives with after Pa's death) is wrong. After her father's death she lives with her mother's relatives and her brother, not with a nephew.
4. Option D (her elementary school teacher) fits. Mr Cole belongs to Adah's school years in Lagos, when she fought to get an education.

Answer: D. Mr Cole is Adah's elementary school teacher.

Tip: For JAMB literature questions, link each character to a setting. Lagos childhood and school characters are Adah's family and teachers like Mr Cole. London characters are Francis, Trudy, the landlords and library colleagues.