An author from this country, Shaaban Robert, gained fame for works including the poem An Epic in the War for Freedom. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this African country. An archipelago in this modern-day country was the birthplace of Abdulrazak Gurnah, who won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature for novels including Paradise.
ANSWER: Tanzania [United Republic of Tanzania; or Zanzibar]
[10h] In this Gurnah novel narrated by Rashid, Martin Pearce is rescued by the shopkeeper Hassanali, whose sister Rehana has a love affair with Pearce. Later in this novel, Rashid's brother falls in love with Rehana's granddaughter.
ANSWER: Desertion
[10e] Tanzanian author Elieshi Lema, whose story "Mwendo" discusses how harmful cultural practices impacted a young girl, wrote in English and this Bantu language of much of Tanzania and Kenya's oral literature.
ANSWER: Swahili [or Kiswahili]
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