AFRICAN LITERATURE

Question 1

What are the main characteristics of African Literature?

Answer 1

• oral tradition
• folktales
• slave
• narratives
• novels

Question 2

It is a necessary social antecedent and cultural heritage of Africans.

Answer 2

Oral tradition

Question 3

Is an anonymous, timeless story circulated orally among African people and meant to hand down knowledge and wisdom from parent to child.

Answer 3

African folktales

Question 4

He is described as the father of African literature.

Answer 4

Chinua Achebe

Question 5

Who wrote, “Things Fall Apart”?

Answer 5

Chinua Achebe

Question 6

It is the most popular African novel of all time and was written to showcase the culture and identity of Africa to the world.

Answer 6

Things Fall Apart

Question 7

A Kenyan author and playwright and one of the literary giants of the continent.

Answer 7

Ngugi wa Thiong’o

Question 8

What are the novels of Ngugi wa Thiong’o that brought speed with life in Kenya and the Mau Mau political struggle for independence of Kenya.

Answer 8

• Weep Not Child
• A Grain of Wheat
• The River Between

Question 9

Who wrote, “The Beautiful Ones Are Not Yet Born”?

Answer 9

Ayi Kwei Armah

Question 10

He wrote, “Mine Boy” and “Tell Freedom”.

Answer 10

Pete Abraham

Question 11

She is acclaimed as the *mother of modern African literature**.

Answer 11

Flora Nwampa

Question 12

What were the novels that were ahead of their time and told the stories of strong independent women, the ideal of the modern feminist movement.

Answer 12

Efuru and Idu

Question 13

She is a Nobel Laureate prof and a living legend.

Answer 13

Wole Soyinka

Question 14

Who wrote, “The Lion and the Jewel”, “Kongi’s Harvest”, “The Trials of Brother Jero”, “The Road”, etc.

Answer 14

Wole Soyinka

Question 15

A very popular story-teller in Nigeria and West Africa who wrote, “An African Night’s Entertainment”, “Jagua Nana”, “Burning Grass”, etc.

Answer 15

Cyprian Ekwensi

Question 16

He wrote, “The Concubine” and “The Great Ponds”.

Answer 16

Elechi Amadi

Question 17

This poem is hopeful and even contemplative of the African condition: it is true that the continent is fraught with hardship and pain, but there are miracles and surprises.

Answer 17

An African Elegy

Question 18

Is famous for his nivel, “The Famished Road” which won the Booker Prize in 1991.
He also wrote the poem, “An African Elegy”

Answer 18

Ben Okri

Question 19

This poem, charged with lyric and imagery, has been a living anthem on the endangered lives of queer Nigerians as well as the politics of silence for the LGBTQ+ Nigerian.

Answer 19

How To Survive The Fire

Question 20

Who wrote the poem, “How To Survive The Fire”?

Answer 20

Romeo Oriogun

Question 21

A poem which is widely regarded as one of the best modern African epic poem.

Answer 21

Song of Lawino

Question 22

Who wrote the, “Song of Lawino”?

Answer 22

Okot P’Bitek

Question 23

A dazzling collection of short stories that deals with some of the universal problems shared by women around the world.

Answer 23

This is Lagos and Other Stories (by Flora Nwapa)

Question 24

This collection of short stories centers on women fighting heroic wars, including the Nigerian civil war, etc.

Answer 24

Wives at War and Other Stories (Flora Nwapa)

Question 25

First collection of short fiction by Sofia Samatar.
These twenty stories travel from the commonplace to the edges of reality.

Answer 25

Tender

Question 26

“Tender” is divided into two parts, which are?

Answer 26

Tender Bodies and Tender Landscapes

Question 27

It is a reverse fairytale that represents the authors views of apartheid South Africa.

Answer 27

One Upon A Time

Question 28

Who wrote the African literature, “Once Upon A Time”?

Answer 28

Nadine Gordimer

Question 29

Who are the main characters in the story, “Once Upon A Time”?

Answer 29

• husband
• wife
• boy (son)

Question 30

What symbolizes the husband in the story Once Upon A Time?

Answer 30

imperialism

Question 31

Who wrote the poem, “Africa”?

Answer 31

David Diop

Question 32

Who wrote the novel, “Anticipation”?

Answer 32

Mabel Dove-Danquah