Perhaps it was magical, a figure that possessed power and could help in some way when help was needed. Or perhaps it was something quite different. We may never know the answer, for the Kota, like many of the tribes of Africa, have changed their old ways, and the meaning of many of their traditions has been lost. —A Short Walk Around the Pyramids and
Through the World of Art
Philip M. Isaacson
What is the meaning of the Kota figure?
The tribes of Africa have many different meanings for it.
We are not sure because its meaning has been lost.
It was a magical figure that possessed power.
The figure stands for all the traditions that have been lost. Please hurry

Identify the type of narration used in the excerpt. which words in the excerpt indicate the type of narration?

In about two hundred words, explain how the author's use of folktales and symbolism add meaning to the story and convey the central theme of the novel: the disintegration of the traditional igbo society as a result of its contact with european practices and beliefs.

Read this paragraph from chapter 5 of the prince. there are, for example, the spartans and the romans. the spartans held athens and thebes, establishing there an oligarchy: nevertheless they lost them. the romans, in order to hold capua, carthage, and numantia, dismantled them, and did not lose them. they wished to hold greece as the spartans held it, making it free and permitting its laws, and did not succeed. so to hold it they were compelled to dismantle many cities in the country, for in truth there is no safe way to retain them otherwise than by ruining them. and he who becomes master of a city accustomed to freedom and does not destroy it, may expect to be destroyed by it, for in rebellion it has always the watchword of liberty and its ancient privileges as a rallying point, which neither time nor benefits will ever cause it to forget. and whatever you may do or provide against, they never forget that name or their privileges unless they are disunited or dispersed, but at every chance they immediately rally to them, as pisa after the hundred years she had been held in bondage by the florentines. what idea is stressed in the passage? the desire for liberty the establishment of an oligarchy the dismantling of an acquired state the tendency toward rebellion