Binyavanga Wainaina - 2024 ACF Regionals

Question

In an essay subtitled “The Revenge,” this author complained about the number of white people who email him about an earlier essay that became “the most-forwarded story in Granta history.” For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this founder of the journal Kwani? A satirical essay by this author instructs, “Describe, in detail, … dead bodies,” and ends by mentioning “rainbows or renaissances, because you care.”

ANSWER: Binyavanga Wainaina [or Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina]

[10e] That Wainaina essay is titled “How to Write About” this place. Chinua Achebe attacked Joseph Conrad’s depiction of this place in an essay titled “An Image of” this place.

ANSWER: Africa

[10m] Ikhide Ikheloa’s essay “How Not to Write About Africa” criticizes the story “Hitting Budapest” by NoViolet Bulawayo, a Caine Prize winner from this country.

ANSWER: Zimbabwe [or Republic of Zimbabwe]

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Summary


2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell	01/27/2024	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU	01/27/2024	Y	10	8.00	70%	10%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska	01/27/2024	Y	6	16.67	100%	67%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State	01/27/2024	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers	01/27/2024	Y	5	12.00	100%	20%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial	01/27/2024	Y	8	20.00	100%	75%	25%
2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt	01/27/2024	Y	5	16.00	100%	60%	0%
2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT	01/27/2024	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%

Data


Stanford A	Berkeley A	0	10	10	20
RIT B	Cornell B	0	10	0	10
Ohio State A	Michigan B	0	10	0	10
John Jay	Penn	0	10	0	10
Cambridge B	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Durham A	Warwick	10	10	10	30
Georgia Tech B	Alabama	0	10	0	10
Geodesic	Tennessee	0	10	10	20
Tufts B	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
Virginia B (UG)	GWU A (UG)	0	10	0	10
Liberty B (DII)	GWU B (Grad)	0	10	0	10
JMU A (UG)	William & Mary A (UG)	0	0	0	0
Duke A (UG)	JMU B (UG)	0	10	0	10
UNC B (UG)	Liberty C (DII)	0	10	0	10
Maryland A (Grad)	Maryland C (DII)	0	10	10	20
Virginia C (UG)	Maryland B (UG)	0	0	0	0
Roanoke College A (DII)	UNC C (UG)	0	0	0	0
UNC D (DII)	Liberty A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Virginia A (UG)	UNC A (Grad)	0	10	0	10
Michigan C	Kenyon	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Ohio State B	0	10	0	10
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins	0	10	10	20
NYU B	Haverford	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Rowan	0	10	0	10
Vassar	Columbia C	0	10	0	10
Bristol	Oxford C	0	10	10	20
Edinburgh	Imperial B	0	10	10	20
Imperial A	Durham B	10	10	10	30
Cambridge C	KCL	0	10	10	20
Kiel	Oxford A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge A	Sheffield	0	10	0	10
Berkeley C	Berkeley B	0	10	10	20
Stanford C	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
Cornell A	Cornell C	10	10	10	30
Binghamton	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Claremont A	Iowa B	0	10	10	20
Iowa A	Appalachian State	0	10	10	20
Rice A	UBC A	0	10	0	10
Michigan State A	Sorbonne	0	10	10	20
Texas A&M B	Texas A&M A	0	10	0	10
UW A	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Kentucky	Harding	0	10	10	20
MTSU	Vanderbilt A	0	10	10	20
South Carolina	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Dartmouth A	Dartmouth B	0	10	10	20
Harvard B	Harvard A	0	10	0	10