Seven young women from the audience make offerings to begin a drama from this region in which the hero defeats the Scrotum King and is peppered with cannon fodder by the Smallpox King. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this geographical region where the seven-nights-long performance Ozidi was transcribed by J. P. Clark. The inventor of “rotten English” was executed for his environmental activism in this geographical region.
ANSWER: Niger River Delta [accept Ogoniland, Delta State, Rivers State, Oil Rivers, or Bayelsa; prompt on lower Niger River, the Delta, southern Nigeria, southeast Nigeria] (The activist is Ken Saro-Wiwa.)
[10e] The Delta’s Ekene masquerades are covered in a Margaret Laurence study of Nigerian lit titled for cannons and these instruments. A genre of West African oral literature uses the “talking” type of these instruments.
ANSWER: drums [accept dùndún or opu ezé; accept talking drums or Long Drums and Cannons; prompt on percussion]
[10h] This Ijaw author of “Piano and Drums” wrote about the Delta’s River Nun. This poet contrasted Europe and Africa in anthology staples like “The Snowflakes Sail Gently Down” and “You Laughed and Laughed and Laughed.”
ANSWER: Gabriel Okara [or Gabriel Imomotimi Gbaingbain Okara]
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