7 questions. Try each one, then open the answer to check yourself and read the explanation.
One of the major themes in Alex Agyei Agyiri's Unexpected Joy at Dawn is
Answer: B (xenophobia)
The novel is set against the mass expulsions of foreigners between Ghana and Nigeria, so hostility to foreigners (xenophobia) is a major theme.
The expression "even the corpses thrown up by the Atlantic" in the poem "The Grieved Lands of Africa" is used
Answer: A (allusively)
The line indirectly refers to the Atlantic slave trade, when enslaved Africans died at sea, so it is an allusion.
African drama takes its root from
Answer: C (ritual)
Traditional African drama grew out of rituals and festivals performed for gods and ancestors.
Which of the following is not a renowned African playwright?
Answer: D (Chinua Achebe)
Soyinka, Ngugi and Fugard all wrote famous plays; Achebe is known for novels such as Things Fall Apart.
Which of the following plays tackles Apartheid in South Africa?
Answer: A (Sizwe Bansi is Dead)
Sizwe Bansi is Dead (Fugard, Kani and Ntshona) shows a man forced to take a dead man's identity under apartheid pass laws.
The African adaptation of Othello by William Shakespeare is
Answer: B (Otaelo)
Ahmed Yerima's play Otaelo adapts Shakespeare's Othello to a Nigerian setting.
Pick the odd one out.
Answer: D (autobiography)
Ritual, myth and festival belong to oral, communal tradition; an autobiography is a written account of the writer's own life.