In a novel from this country, a writer first encounters the lost novel The Labyrinth of Inhumanity after sleeping with an older acclaimed author he calls the “Spider-Mother.” That novel from this country was influenced by Roberto Bolaño, draws from the Yambo Ouologuem (“wo-lo-GHEM”) plagiarism scandal, and is titled The Most Secret Memory of Men. In a novel from this country, a woman undergoes forty days of solitude after her polygamous husband Modou dies from a heart attack. An author from this country wrote an epistolary novel in which Ramatoulaye (“rah-mah-too-LYE”) writes to her friend Aissatou (“eye-sah-TOO”) after becoming widowed; that novel is So Long a Letter. In 1960, the Négritude poet of “Black Woman” became this country’s first president. For 10 points, name this home country of Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, Mariama Bâ, and Leopold Senghor. ■END■
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| Omer Keskin | Oxford A | Warwick B | 32 | 10 |
| Jack Lenga | Carnegie Mellon B | Michigan D | 37 | -5 |
| Richard Niu | Cornell B | Columbia C | 52 | 10 |
| Seraphina Charlotte Foo | Cambridge A | Oxford B | 53 | 10 |
| Jaik Havlick | ASU | Texas B | 57 | 10 |
| Michał Gerasimiuk | Stanford B | Georgetown A | 70 | -5 |
| Justin Hawkins | Indiana A | Illinois A | 71 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Indiana A | 76 | 10 |
| Anuttam Ramji | UC Berkeley B | UCSD | 85 | 10 |
| Jack Lewis | Bruin A | Georgia Tech B | 85 | 10 |
| Kaiser Xiao | UCLA | Claremont A | 87 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC | UW B | 87 | 10 |
| Samarth Ram | Chicago C | Missouri | 88 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech C | Alabama A | 88 | 10 |
| Sinecio Morales | Johns Hopkins A | Rutgers A | 88 | 10 |
| Eve Fleisig | UC Berkeley A | Claremont B | 89 | 10 |
| Guy Indorante | Iowa State | Winona State | 91 | 10 |
| Jisoo Yoo | Texas A | TAMU | 96 | -5 |
| Eva Lettiere-Roberts | George Washington A | NYU B | 99 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Imperial B | 100 | 10 |
| Eshan Pant | NYU A | John Jay College | 101 | 10 |
| Stan Melkumian | Purdue | Northwestern B | 103 | 10 |
| Sharath Narayan | Northwestern A | Georgetown B | 103 | 10 |
| Jacob Puthipiroj | Northwestern B | Purdue | 103 | -5 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge B | Cambridge D | 103 | -5 |
| Roan Dowling | Iowa | Notre Dame B | 105 | 10 |
| Joseph Chambers | Virginia A | Wake Forest | 107 | 10 |
| Eric Chang | Virginia Tech A | South Carolina | 107 | 10 |
| Enina Edosomwan | Case Western A | Case Western B | 109 | 10 |
| Ned Tagtmeier | Chicago A | Chicago B | 109 | 10 |
| Chris Levesley | Warwick A | Manchester | 109 | 10 |
| Jack Rado | Columbia B | Haverford B | 110 | 10 |
| Truman Fillbrandt | UW A | Alberta | 111 | 10 |
| John Hines-Shah | Carleton | Wisconsin A | 114 | 10 |
| Simon Zimmerman | Ohio State A | Carnegie Mellon A | 116 | 10 |
| Parker McCoig | Tennessee A | Georgia Tech D | 116 | 10 |
| Beckett Gilmore | Louisville A | Vanderbilt A | 116 | 10 |
| William Orr | Yale A | Vassar A | 116 | 10 |
| Charles Hang | WashU A | Illinois C | 117 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William & Mary | Duke | 118 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Illinois B | 119 | 10 |
| Morgan Bozeman | Minnesota B | Wisconsin B | 119 | 10 |
| Arvin Boraghi | Cambridge C | Cambridge E | 120 | 10 |
| Justin Lee | Imperial A | Durham | 125 | 10 |
| Cole Polley | Michigan D | Carnegie Mellon B | 126 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago D | Missouri S&T | 132 | 10 |
| Anirudh Bharadwaj | Penn A | George Washington B | 132 | 10 |
| Anton Akroush | Michigan State | Michigan A | 133 | 10 |
| Prahalad Rao | Ohio State B | Kenyon | 133 | 10 |
| Diego Almaraz | UNC C | Liberty B | 133 | 0 |
| Crow He | UNC B | Liberty A | 133 | 0 |
| Jeffrey Austin | UNC D | Liberty C | 133 | 0 |
| Jonathan Bost | Liberty B | UNC C | 133 | 0 |
| Caleb Hines | Liberty A | UNC B | 133 | 0 |
| Jonathan Schneidau | Liberty C | UNC D | 133 | 0 |
| Will Sanders | Notre Dame C | Notre Dame A | 133 | 0 |
| Rachel Ezrielev | Georgetown A | Stanford B | 133 | 10 |
| Stephen Heritage | Notre Dame A | Notre Dame C | 133 | 0 |
| John Luke Broussard | TAMU | Texas A | 133 | 10 |
| Jacob Hardin-Bernhardt | NYU C | Southampton B | 133 | 10 |
| Gus Vanskike | Maryland B | Penn B | 133 | 10 |
| Greg Reiser | RIT B | Binghamton A | 133 | 0 |
| Kevin Peng | Cornell C | RIT A | 133 | 10 |
| Pranaav Senthilkumar | Cornell D | ESF A | 133 | 10 |
| Owen Linder | Binghamton A | RIT B | 133 | 0 |
| Percy Yuen | Cambridge D | Cambridge B | 146 | 10 |
| Roselyn Daffin | Southampton A | Oxford C | 146 | 0 |
| Benjamin Watson | Oxford C | Southampton A | 146 | 0 |
| Kevin Flanagan | Bristol | Sheffield | 146 | 10 |