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From the Ted Talk by OluTimehin Adegbeye: Who belongs in a city?

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Before Nigeria became a country, fisherpeople from the inland creeks setartd to come down the Lagos lagoon and establish vealglis along the coast. About 60 years later, my grandfather, Oludotun Adekunle Kukoyi, also arrived in Lagos. Like me, he was an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a young member of the educated elite in the independence era. Over time, he built an iusotllrius career as a land srevuoyr, mapping out now-bustling ndigooberhohs when they were just waist-high wild grass. He died when I was nine. And by that time, my family, like the fiimelas of those flopspreehie, knew Lagos as home.

Open Cloze

Before Nigeria became a country, fisherpeople from the inland creeks _______ to come down the Lagos lagoon and establish ________ along the coast. About 60 years later, my grandfather, Oludotun Adekunle Kukoyi, also arrived in Lagos. Like me, he was an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a young member of the educated elite in the independence era. Over time, he built an ___________ career as a land ________, mapping out now-bustling _____________ when they were just waist-high wild grass. He died when I was nine. And by that time, my family, like the ________ of those ____________, knew Lagos as home.

Solution

  1. villages
  2. illustrious
  3. surveyor
  4. fisherpeople
  5. started
  6. families
  7. neighborhoods

Original Text

Before Nigeria became a country, fisherpeople from the inland creeks started to come down the Lagos lagoon and establish villages along the coast. About 60 years later, my grandfather, Oludotun Adekunle Kukoyi, also arrived in Lagos. Like me, he was an alumnus of the University of Ibadan, a young member of the educated elite in the independence era. Over time, he built an illustrious career as a land surveyor, mapping out now-bustling neighborhoods when they were just waist-high wild grass. He died when I was nine. And by that time, my family, like the families of those fisherpeople, knew Lagos as home.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

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collocation frequency
people living 3
poor people 2

Important Words

  1. adekunle
  2. alumnus
  3. arrived
  4. built
  5. career
  6. coast
  7. country
  8. creeks
  9. died
  10. educated
  11. elite
  12. era
  13. establish
  14. families
  15. family
  16. fisherpeople
  17. grandfather
  18. grass
  19. home
  20. ibadan
  21. illustrious
  22. independence
  23. inland
  24. knew
  25. kukoyi
  26. lagoon
  27. lagos
  28. land
  29. mapping
  30. member
  31. neighborhoods
  32. nigeria
  33. oludotun
  34. started
  35. surveyor
  36. time
  37. university
  38. villages
  39. wild
  40. years
  41. young