This question is based on Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn The temporal setting of the novel is in

Analyze the question: You're asked for the temporal setting (the time and places) of Alex Agyei-Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn.

Concept: The novel is about Kwame Ntiful-Mensah's story. It follows a Ghanaian family and their social struggles, and it moves between Ghana and Nigeria. The key is matching the right decade to the right country.

Working through it:

• The story opens in Ghana, with the heroine Efua's rural/urban background and her marriage to Kwame. This part belongs to the Ghana of the 1960s, the post-independence era.
• It then moves to Nigeria, where Efua's husband and family are later found. This part is in the 1980s, a period of Nigerian economic hardship.
• Hence the pattern is early Ghana (1960s), then later Nigeria (1980s).

I'm recalling this from my knowledge of the text rather than from a passage supplied with the question. Option A reverses the countries and decades. Option B places the 1960s in Nigeria first, which doesn't fit the story's sequence. Option D uses the 1940s, which is too early for the novel's post-independence concerns.

Answer: C. 1960s Ghana and 1980s Nigeria

Exam tip: For literature setting questions, tie the setting to the plot order: where the story starts and which period comes first. Also remember that in this novel the earlier period is Ghana and the later period is Nigeria. Eliminate options that reverse the order.