The head of the Department of Health and Hygiene frantically tries to bring these people back to the capital after his marabout advises giving them the 77 portions of a sacrificed bull. For 10 points each:
[10h] What people go on strike in a novel by Wolof author Aminata Sow Fall? One of these people spits on El Hadji after coercing him into stripping naked at the end of Ousmane Sembène’s novel Xala.
ANSWER: beggars [accept The Beggars’ Strike or La Grève des bàttu]
[10e] The beggar offers to cure El Hadji’s impotence after he is upbraided by a member of the Businessmen’s Group known only by this title. Xala satirizes Senegal’s first holder of this title, who wrote the poem “Black Woman.”
ANSWER: president [or président; accept President of Senegal or Président de la république du Sénégal] (Senegal’s first president was Leopold Senghor.)
[10m] A beggar accompanies Clarence on a surreal journey in this author’s The Radiance of the King. This Guinean author described a magic snake assisting his goldworking father in his memoir The Dark Child.
ANSWER: Camara Laye
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