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Question

In a Ferdinand Oyono novel featured in the African Writers Series, or AWS, Toundi Ondoua is employed by the Commandant in a role suffixed by this word. For 10 points each:

[10m] Name this word that refers to a gold mine worker in a Peter Abrahams novel in the AWS. Ken Saro-Wiwa used “rotten English” to write a novel that prefixes this word with “Soza.”

ANSWER: boy [accept Sozaboy; accept Mine Boy; accept Houseboy]

[10e] Xuma works as the title Mine Boy in that novel by Peter Abrahams, an author from this country. The author of the memoir Boyhood and the novel Disgrace, J. M. Coetzee, moved to Australia from this country.

ANSWER: South Africa [or Republic of South Africa; or RSA]

[10h] A Yusuf Sibai story from an Egyptian collection in the AWS is titled for a boy described by this word, which describes a prosecutor whose diary titles a Tawfiq al-Hakim novel. Dubula leads a bus boycott to protest transit fares in a novel whose title ends with this word.

ANSWER: country [accept Cry, the Beloved Country; accept Diary of a Country Prosecutor; accept “The Country Boy”]

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Summary


California	Main	Y	5	18.00	100%	60%	20%
Canada	Main	Y	6	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Florida	Main	Y	12	11.67	83%	25%	8%
Great Lakes	Main	Y	6	6.67	67%	0%	0%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	7	12.86	86%	29%	14%
Midwest	Main	Y	10	10.00	80%	10%	10%
North	Main	Y	10	11.00	80%	10%	20%
Northeast	Main	Y	5	14.00	80%	40%	20%
Overflow	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	0%	25%
Overflow	Main	Y	1	10.00	100%	0%	0%
Pacific Northwest	Main	Y	12	17.50	83%	25%	67%
South Central	Main	Y	2	20.00	100%	50%	50%
Southeast	Main	Y	12	13.33	92%	25%	17%
UK	Main	Y	4	12.50	100%	25%	0%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	Main	Y	8	12.50	88%	25%	13%
Upstate NY	Main	Y	8	15.00	88%	38%	25%
2025 ACF Nationals	2025-08-09	Y	1	20.00	100%	100%	0%
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley	04/19/2025	Y	4	10.00	75%	25%	0%

Data


Berkeley B	Berkeley E	10	10	0	20
Berkeley F	Stanford A	0	10	0	10
Stanford B	Berkeley C	0	10	0	10
Berkeley D	Stanford C	10	10	10	30
Berkeley A	UCSC	10	10	0	20
Claremont Scripps	UCLA C	0	10	0	10
USC	UCI	0	10	0	10
UCLA B	UCSB	0	10	0	10
UCLA D	UCSD Two Running Violet V Forms	0	10	0	10
Claremont Pitzer	UCSD Vices and Virtues	0	10	0	10
UCLA A	UCSD What Hath God Wrought	0	10	0	10
Guelph A	Queen's A	10	10	0	20
McGill A	McMaster C	0	10	0	10
McGill C	Toronto D	0	10	0	10
Toronto F	McMaster A	0	0	0	0
Queen's B	Toronto C	0	10	0	10
Toronto A	Toronto E	10	10	0	20
Toronto H	Toronto G	0	10	0	10
Toronto I	Ottawa	0	10	0	10
McGill B	Toronto J	0	10	0	10
Carleton	Toronto K	0	10	10	20
Toronto Metropolitan	McMaster B	10	0	0	10
Western Ontario	Guelph B	0	10	0	10
Melbourne A	ERAU A	0	10	0	10
FSU	ERAU B	0	10	0	10
UCF B	UF A	0	10	0	10
UF D	Melbourne B	0	0	0	0
UCF A	UF E	0	10	0	10
USF	FIU	0	0	0	0
MSU B	CWRU B	0	10	0	10
OSU A	CWRU C	10	10	10	30
Pitt A	OSU B	10	10	0	20
Kenyon A	OSU C	0	0	0	0
OSU D	CWRU D	0	10	0	10
Pitt B	MSU A	0	10	0	10
CWRU A	Pitt C	0	10	0	10
Tennessee B	Clemson A	0	10	0	10
Liberty B	Clemson B	0	10	0	10
Liberty C	James Madison	0	10	0	10
Liberty A	Roanoke	0	10	0	10
NC State	Tennessee A	0	0	0	0
North Carolina A	South Carolina A	10	10	0	20
Virginia A	Tusculum	0	10	0	10
Virginia B	North Carolina C	0	0	0	0
Virginia Tech A	North Carolina B	0	10	10	20
Virginia Tech B	South Carolina B	0	10	0	10
George Mason A	George Washington B	0	10	10	20
George Washington A	Maryland D	0	0	0	0
Georgetown B	George Mason C	0	10	0	10
NYU A	Georgetown A	10	10	0	20
NYU B	Maryland A	0	10	0	10
Maryland B	Notre Dame E	0	10	10	20
Johns Hopkins A	Penn A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins C	Penn B	0	10	0	10
Catholic University	UMBC A	0	10	0	10
Johns Hopkins B	VCU A	0	0	0	0
Columbia A	Columbia B	10	10	10	30
Lehigh A	Swarthmore A	0	10	0	10
Princeton A	Lehigh B	10	10	0	20
Vassar A	Rutgers B	0	0	0	0
WashU C	Truman State	0	10	0	10
WashU C	Truman State	0	10	0	10
WashU C	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
WashU C	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
Missouri B	WashU D	0	10	10	20
WashU C	Truman State	0	10	0	10
WashU C	Truman State	0	10	0	10
WashU C	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
WashU C	Missouri B	0	10	0	10
WashU B	WashU A	0	10	0	10
William Woods	SIUE	0	10	0	10
Rowan A	Rutgers C	0	10	0	10
Illinois A	Chicago B	10	10	10	30
Chicago C	Indiana A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame D	Chicago D	0	0	10	10
Carleton	Iowa State	0	10	10	20
Minnesota A	Macalester B	10	10	0	20
Illinois C	Chicago A	10	10	10	30
Notre Dame B	Indiana B	0	0	0	0
Louisville B	Michigan C	0	10	0	10
Michigan A	Kentucky	10	10	10	30
Louisville A	Michigan D	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame A	Purdue A	0	10	10	20
Illinois B	Purdue B	0	10	0	10
Purdue C	Notre Dame C	0	10	0	10
Michigan B	UIC	0	10	10	20
Yale A	Amherst B	10	10	0	20
BC A	Tufts A	0	10	0	10
MIT A	Bowdoin B	10	10	10	30
Brandeis Lloyd George	Bowdoin A	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Orlando	Cornell-UG	0	10	0	10
Brandeis Wilson	Yale B	0	10	0	10
Brown A	Brandeis Clemenceau	0	10	0	10
BU	Brown B	0	10	0	10
Brown C	BC B	0	10	0	10
Harvard	MIT B	10	10	10	30
Tufts B	Dartmouth	0	0	0	0
Williams	Amherst A	0	10	0	10
British Columbia A	British Columbia C	10	10	0	20
British Columbia D	British Columbia B	0	10	0	10
Alberta	Washington A	0	10	0	10
Simon Fraser	Washington B	0	10	0	10
Alberta B	Texas B	0	10	0	10
Ohio	Arizona State A	10	10	0	20
Northwestern A	Iowa	10	10	0	20
Northwestern C	UTD A	0	10	0	10
Arizona State B	Rose State	0	10	0	10
UCO	Texas A	0	10	10	20
Northwestern B	Tulsa	0	10	0	10
UTD B	McGill D	0	0	0	0
Georgia Tech D	Alabama A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech A	Auburn B	0	10	0	10
Auburn A	Georgia Tech C	0	10	10	20
Alabama B	Huntsville A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech B	Mississippi State A	10	10	0	20
Bruin A	UAB A	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Sewanee A	10	10	0	20
Huntsville B	Vanderbilt B	0	0	0	0
Cambridge A	Imperial A	10	10	0	20
ESF	Binghamton B	0	10	0	10
Binghamton A	RIT A	0	10	0	10
Rochester	Syracuse	0	0	0	0
Cornell-DII	RIT B	10	10	0	20