AFRICAN LITERATURE

Question 1

African literature is widely oral in tradition. What is this literary form called?
A. Folkways
B. Orature

Answer 1

Orature

Question 2

Keepers of oral literature in west Africa. Professional storyteller, singer, or entertainer who are skilled at creating and transmitting the many forms of African Literature
A. Rioters
B. Griots

Answer 2

B. Griots

Question 3

True or False
The following are considered as features of African oral literature:
-Repetition and parallel structure
-Repeat and vary technique
-Call-and-response format
-Tonal assonance
-Written in tribal letters

Answer 3

False
Only the following are included
-Repetition and parallel structure
-Repeat and vary technique
-Call-and-response format
-Tonal assonance

Question 4

Do not tell stories but instead create vivid expressive testaments to a speaker’s thoughts or emotional state
A. Ballad
B. Lyric Poems

Answer 4

B. Lyric Poems

Question 5

Poetic form that uses few words but achieves great depth of meaning; Values and knowledge
A. African Proverbs
B. African Fables

Answer 5

A. African Proverbs

Question 6

Morale tale intended for listeners to discuss and debate on
A. Dilemma or Enigma Tale
B. Ashanti tale

Answer 6

A. Dilemma or Enigma Tale

Question 7

These stories exemplify the common occupations such as farming, fishing, and weaving of the Ashanti tribe. Combines realistic elements like talking objects and animals.
A. Ashanti Stories
B. Ashanti Tale

Answer 7

B. Ashanti Tale

Question 8

Who is the best-known African trickster figure who plays both the hero and villain
A. Anansi
b. Sansi

Answer 8

A. Anansi

Question 9

Means “blackness”, is the literary movement that began among French-speaking African and Caribbean writers living in Paris as a protest against French colonial rule.
A. Black lives movement
B. Negritude

Answer 9

B. Negritude

Question 10

All of the following are part of the negritude movement except?
A. Look to their own cultural heritage
B. Writers should use African subject matter and poetic traditions and excite a desire for political freedom
C. Encompasses the South African culture and values
D. Value and dignity of African traditions and peoples must be asserted

Answer 10

C. Encompasses the South African culture and values

Should be WHOLE OF AFRICAN culture and values

Question 11

Was considered a key figure in the Negritude movement.
A. Dennis Brutus
B. Leopold Senghor

Answer 11

B. Leopold Senghor

Question 12

Leading figure of the Anti-Apartheid movement and addressed social and political issues.
A. Dennis Brutus
B. Wole Soyinka

Answer 12

A. Dennis Brutus

Question 13

Who and what won the first able noble prize for literature in Africa?

Answer 13

Wole Soyinka for his work “Telephone Conversation”