The cast sings “Awake, you who are asleep! / We are winnowing right from wrong!” in this language at the end of Hassan Sheikh Mumin’s play Leopard Among the Women. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this language whose long oral tradition influenced the 1905 poem “Afbakayle.” An exiled author who grew up speaking this language wrote the novels Maps and From a Crooked Rib.
ANSWER: Somali [or Soomaali; or Af Soomaali]
[10m] Coercion into performing this action is central to Nuruddin Farah’s novel From a Crooked Rib and Faarax M. J. Cawl’s Somali novel Ignorance Is the Enemy of Love. A Kikuyu-language play is titled in English for doing this “When I Want.”
ANSWER: arranged marriage [or marrying or having a wedding or matrimony; accept I Will Marry When I Want] (I Will Marry When I Want is by Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o and Ngũgĩ wa Mirii.)
[10e] Farah also wrote a trilogy about an “African” leader of this type. One of these people known as The Ruler assumes control of the setting of Ngũgĩ’s Wizard of the Crow, part of a genre more common in Latin American fiction.
ANSWER: dictators [accept dictator novel; accept Variations on the Theme of an African Dictatorship]
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