African Literature

Question 1

Nigerian author of the African trilogy, containing Things Fall Apart, No Longer at Ease, and Arrow of God. He criticizes Conrad’s Heart of Darkness in An Image of Africa and his lesser known works include Anthills of the Savannah and Man of the People.

Answer 1

Chinua Achebe

Question 2

South African writer of works such as “The Life and Times of Michael K” about a man who travels to Cape Town during a fictional civil war, Waiting for the Barbarians about a fictional empire, and lesser known works Disgrace and Elizabeth Costello.

Answer 2

J.M. Coetzee

Question 3

South African playwright of Blood Knot about the tensions between a light skinned and black skinner brothers and Master Harrold and the Boys about how institutional racism is absorbed by those who live under it.

Answer 3

Athol Fugard

Question 4

South African author of July’s People about post-apartheid life, Burger’s Daughter about anti-apartheid revolutionaries, and The Conservationist about the businessman Mehring who finds a dead black man’s corpse on his farm.

Answer 4

Nadine Gordimer

Question 5

Egyptian author of Palace Walk, Palace of Desire, and Sugar Street (Collectively the Cairo Trilogy) as well as the religious allegorical novel Children of Gebelawi.

Answer 5

Naguib Mahfouz

Question 6

South African author of Cry the Beloved Country and Too Late the Phalarope.

Answer 6

Alan Paton

Question 7

Nigerian author of Death and the King’s Horseman, where Brit Simon Pilkings stops a ritual side and The Lion and The Jewel.

Answer 7

Wole Soyinka