Edward Wilson-Lee explored the unexpected influence of this author’s dramas in East Africa in a book titled for this author “in Swahililand.” For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this author. Welcome Msomi's play uMabatha, in which Mabatha overthrows Dangane, draws from how the title character of one of this man's plays is overthrown by Macduff and Malcolm.
ANSWER: William Shakespeare
[10m] Thomas Decker first translated this Shakespeare play into Krio. Yaël Farber blended Zulu and Xhosa dialog with lines depicting its title character as “ambitious” and “as constant as the Northern Star.”
ANSWER: The Tragedy of Julius Caesar
[10h] Sony Lab'ou Tansi, an author of this ethnicity, created a version of Romeo and Juliet introducing racial dynamics. A French author of this ethnicity wrote about patrons of the bar Credit Gone West in Broken Glass.
ANSWER: Congolese [or Democratic Republic of the Congo; or Republic of the Congo; accept Kongolese; the author is Alain Mabanckou]
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