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Kepha the fighter

The scriptures are quite candid: have you seen a man who works hard? He will sit among the rulers. This is

especially true when one gives ear to the tale of the physically challenge Wycliffe Kepha Anyanzwa. Kepha

was written off some thirty years ago as a bother and a good for nothing by his close relatives, the church5

and his foes alike. But a face-to-face encounter with his witty tongue and booming voice immediately

displays the confidence and determination that have driven him to the winning edge.

Kepha says his creeping paralysis is the result of a poor judgement by careless physician at the then King

George Hospital, now Kenyatta National Hospital, at his birth. But he says one thing kept me going. This

was the strange voice that was with me from the age of eight which told me that although I was disabled10

physically, I could not afford to be damaged psychologically.

School days for Kepha were a misery. My teachers were totally insensitive to my needs. Most of them seem

to enjoy whacking me. Whack! Whack! Whack! Was it their business he recalls?After school Kepha applied and qualified a position at the Embu Vocational Training and Rehabilitation

Centre, where he specialized in leather work. He graduated in six months and was immediately recruited by15

the Association of Disabled Persons.

W here he was employed in leather worker. He worked seriously over his childhood ambitions of developing

a simple and affordable transport kit a simple and affordable transport kit for those disabilities like himself.

Having had poor parents he had never been able to have a wheelchair to get himself around Nairobi. But

with the help of friends and my big brother , Kepha told me we were able to assemble a number of20

materials, and our mobility problems was half solved.

It was in 1978 that Kepha got his big break in the form of a training opportunity in Swedens Stockholm State

Engineering College. Back home in Nairobi in 1989, Kepha and Co were able to come up with the first -ever

Kenyan-made, motorized wheelchair from junk motorcycle parts. There was so much interest in the project

that in no time at all Kepha motorbike and fabricators Engineers was established and what had started as a25

simple idea in a ramshackle garage soon became a successful company with a record-setting growth curve.

But a cunning and fast-learning Kepha was not satisfied. After much soul-searching and help from western

donors he has moved into more complicated area of modifying cars for the disabled. He has been working

fully on this since 1992.

Thus Kephas effort at easing the plight of a small proportion of the worlds 500 million disabled has been30

him a little bit happier than he was all those years. I feel that I have done better than the most able-bodied

persons, Kepha ventures proudly.

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A-Reading Comprehension

I-Read the text and fill in Kephas profile

II-Read the text and say whether these statements are true or false by circling, justify by quoting a

passage from the text

III-Read the text and fill in the chart. The first one is given as an example

IV-Match words in column A with their definitions in column B

First name: -------------------------------------------------------------------

Last name: --------------------------------------------------------------------

Place of birth: -----------------------------------------------------------------Kephas psychological characteristic -------------------------------------

Nationality: --------------------------------------------------------------------

Name of his Company: ------------------------------------------------------

First occupation: --------------------------------------------------------------

Second occu ation: -----------------------------------------------------------

1-Kepha abandoned the challenge. -----------------------------------------------------

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2-Teachers were helpful to Kepha. T -----------------------------------------------------

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3-Kephas disability is congenital. T -----------------------------------------------------

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4-Kepha went to Sweden for medical care. T -----------------------------------------------------

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Statements Justifications

Problems

1-Disability

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3-----------------------

4-Mobility

Causes

1-Poor judgement

2-Kephas teachers

3-Relatives, the Churchand the foes

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1- Affordable

2-to creep

3-insensitive

4-to whack

5-Junk

6-cunning

7-disable

a- old or second-hand articles sold cheaply.

b- not to show a feeling of sympathy

c-Babies are doing it before they walk

d- Accessible to everybody

e-Clever

f- To hit somebody sharply

ColumnA

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B-Linguistic and communicative competence

I-Complete this paragraph with the appropriate compound noun taking words from the box.

Number5 is given for you

Every Sunday, the ---------------- (1)man is preaching at the church. Before the mass starts the---------------- (2)

maid the room needs to be cleaned and perfume is spread. The time ----------------- (3) was hung up on the

walk and it was 9 oclock sharp. On the table------------------ (4) was burning a candle and the Bible was put

next to the bowl of biscuits. If you look up on the far corner of the vestibule was set a lamplight (5) that was

lighting the room in which dominates the psalms.

Report the second paragraph of the text and take into considerations all the modifications

Kepha said, my creeping paralysis is the result of a poor judgement by careless physician at the then King

George Hospital, now Kenyatta National Hospital, at my birth. But he said one thing kept me going. Thisshall have been the strange voice that was with me from the age of eight. The voice told me, although I was

disabled physically, I could not afford to be damaged psychologically.

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II-Complete Kephas psychological portrait with modals: CanCouldMay- Might -

Should Teachers in Kephas and his entire environment might(1) help him by giving comfort.Kepha was sad and was sole in the attitude of the society. Fortunately, Kepha----------------- (2) learn

very quickly and very often surprise people who were stigmatizing him. They -------------- (3) have

been less hard in their treatments. Since Kepha was physically handicapped the society ---------------

(4) have been his first support but nonetheless they thought he was good for nothing. Kepha was left

by himself and his situation was getting better and better because of his commitment and

determination. He ----------------- (5) head a successful life and back from Sweden he created a

company.

II-Compare Kephas situation with the handicap in the Senegal context and see what they

have in common?

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Lamp ----- Horse

Keeper ----- Clergy

Cloth ----- Chamber

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