After getting sent to the hospital after a foot race at a celebration for this event, Gikonyo finally manages to forgive his wife and accept her out of wedlock child as his own. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this event at whose celebration in the novel A Grain of Wheat, Mugo mysteriously refuses to make a speech and then later steps forward to reveal he was the one who betrayed the hero Kihika.
ANSWER: Kenya’s independence (from Britain) [accept equivalent descriptions; accept Uhuru no Kazi; accept Madaraka day or self-rule (because even though the novel doesn’t refer to it as such the event/day are more or less equivalent)]
[10e] This author wrote about Kenya’s independence in A Grain of Wheat and also wrote the novel Petals of Blood.
ANSWER: Ngugi wa Thiong’o
[10h] In this other novel, Ludo bricks herself into her apartment in Luanda on the brink of Angola’s independence and lives for 30 years off growing vegetables and catching pigeons on the balcony.
ANSWER: A General Theory of Oblivion [accept Teoria Geral do Esquecimento]
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