Question

Mabel Dove serialized a Shaw parody in this present-day country, whose people are likened to the Greeks in J. E. Casely Hayford’s speculative novel Ethiopia Unbound. For 10 points each:
[10m] What country’s Western Echo published A. Native’s pseudonymous novel Marita? Kobina Sekyi’s 1915 play The Blinkards satirized its “Euro-Africans,” as did the later novels Changes: A Love Story and Our Sister Killjoy.
ANSWER: Ghana [or Republic of Ghana; accept Gold Coast or Cape Coast; reject “Cape Colony”] (Mabel Dove Danquah wrote The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for Mr Shaw. The later author is Ama Ata Aidoo.)
[10e] This author, who moved to Ghana to create an Encyclopedia Africana, theorized the “problem of the color line” and “double consciousness.”
ANSWER: W. E. B. Du Bois [or William Edward Burghardt Du Bois]
[10h] One of these people titles a Du Bois novel in which Matthew and Kautilya conceive a “messiah.” “African” examples of these people title Fatima Massaquoi’s autobiography and Joseph J. Walters’s 1891 novel Guanya Pau.
ANSWER: princesses [accept Dark Princess; accept Guayna Pau: A Story of an African Princess; accept The Autobiography of an African Princess]
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RutgersArizona State1010020
BrownMichigan1010020
North Carolina AChicago B1010020
Chicago DChicago C010010
VirginiaClaremont Colleges010010
Cornell APurdue1010020
VanderbiltCornell B0000
DukeFlorida1010020
Johns HopkinsGeorgia Tech1010020
HarvardSouth Carolina010010
IllinoisToronto A1010020
IndianaColumbia A1010020
KentuckyMinnesota B1010020
MarylandBerkeley A1010020
McGillBerkeley B010010
NYUIowa State010010
Truman StateNorth Carolina B010010
Yale ANorthwestern1010020
OttawaToronto B010010
Chicago AStanford10101030
TexasWUSTL A1010020
PennWUSTL B010010
WaterlooMinnesota A1010020
Columbia BYale B010010