African History and Literature

Question 1

Ancient Egyptians began using _____________ to accompany the dead.

Answer 1

Burial text

Question 2

Ancient Egyptians began using _____________ to accompany the dead.

Answer 2

Burial text

Question 3

Ancient Egyptians began using _____________ to accompany the dead.

Answer 3

Burial text

Question 4

Creation narratives are passed on through _______

Answer 4

Oral Tradition

Question 5

Creation narratives are passed on through _______

Answer 5

Oral Tradition

Question 6

When was the expansion of Roman Empire, rise of Axum (Ethiopia), and African conversion to Christianity

Answer 6

300 to 700 AD

Question 7

When did Khalif Omar conquered Egypt with Islamic troops and established Islamic presence through promotion of written literature.

Answer 7

639 to 641 AD

Question 8

Since 700 AD, roughly 14 million Africans were sold through the ______?

Answer 8

Arab Slave Trade

Question 9

The slaughter of 28 million Africans

Answer 9

Black Holocaust

Question 10

What led Africans to carry with them their oral arts?

Answer 10

African diaspora

Question 11

African folktales were widespread on the African continent and were carried to the _______, _________, and the __________ .

Answer 11

Caribbean, Latin America, and the United States.

Question 12

What pseudonym did Olaudah Equiano use for his auto biography?

Answer 12

Gustavus Vassa

Question 13

When did the slaves sought the emancipation from foreign colonial powers

Answer 13

19th century

Question 14

What was published in 1850s

Answer 14

Black journalism and secular writings

Question 15

Works of literature were written in what language?

Answer 15

European and African languages.

Question 16

When did writers justified the concept of “Africanness,” which led to the rejection of European culture in literature

Answer 16

1880s

Question 17

By 1920 to 1930s African writings reflected ideas from what?

Answer 17

black nationalism and anti-colonial politics movements

Question 18

asserted African identity and culture and denounced the colonization of Africa and when did this happen

Answer 18

Negritude movement from 1930s

Question 19

In 1950s, _______ existed through the works of white South African writers in English.

Answer 19

Anti-Apartheid literature

Question 20

The turn of the __________ gave rise to publishing African oratures.

Answer 20

20th century

Question 21

At the University of Nairobi, Kenya, who called for the abolition of the English department to be replaced by a Department of African Literature and Languages to study African oral traditions?

Answer 21

Ngugi wa Thiong’o, Henry Owuor-Anyumba, and Taban Lo Liyong.

Question 22

The 3 African writers were awarded with the Nobel Prize in Literature from the year 1986, 1988, and 1991

Answer 22

Nigerian writer Wole Soyinka in 1986; Egyptian writer Naguib Mahfouz in 1988 (the first prize-winning writer with Arabic as his native tongue), and South African writer Nadine Gordimer in 1991.

Question 23

Who was the long-time political prisoner who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1993 for his leadership toward a democratic South Africa. Then in South Africa’s first multiracial elections in 1994 he was elected president.

Answer 23

Nelson Mandela