THIS QUESTION ARE BASED ON SELECTED POEMS FROM D.I. NWOGA’S (ED.): WEST AFRICAN VERSE.
‘Before you, mother Idoto, naked I stand before your watery presence a prodigal’.
In the above lines from Christopher Okadigbo’s Idoto, the speaker is a ‘prodigal’ because he
- has wasted all his mother's money
- is money
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has come back to worship the godess which he has neglected
- has been caught discraching the shrine of the godess