In a novel by this author, projects like a school for circumcised children prevent the protagonist from stopping the growing influence of Kiama. In a novel by this author, villagers who travel to the capital to petition for help during a drought are unable to find anyone willing to help the sick child Joseph. This author detailed the failed attempt of Waiyaki to become a savior who unites two villages separated by a river. A fire mentioned at the beginning of one of this author’s novels is revealed to have been caused by a schoolteacher angry at seeing Karega enter and leave a brothel. At the climax of one of this author’s novels, Mugo steps forward to admit he was the one who betrayed the Mau Mau fighter Kihika. For 10 points, name this Kenyan author of A Grain of Wheat and Petals of Blood. ■END■
| Player | Team | Opponent | Buzz Position | Value |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alex Jiang | Brown | Yale | 22 | 10 |
| Jakob Meyers | Indiana A | Northwestern B | 28 | 10 |
| Albert Nyang | LSE | Birmingham | 41 | -5 |
| Karthik Jayaram | UCLA A | UCSD B | 61 | 10 |
| Kevin Wang | Georgia Tech A | Missouri A | 68 | 10 |
| Dylan Steptoe | Guelph | McMaster A | 69 | 10 |
| Noah Chin | Virginia Tech A | Virginia | 70 | 10 |
| Lovel Hearn | Edinburgh B | Southampton A | 70 | -5 |
| Andrew Wang | Illinois A | Illinois C | 72 | 10 |
| Nolan Jones | Purdue A | Illinois B | 91 | -5 |
| Rohan Ganeshan | Harvard A | Bowdoin A | 103 | 10 |
| Tai Belke | UBC B | Ottawa | 103 | 10 |
| Chris Yoo | William and Mary | Virginia Tech B | 104 | 10 |
| Dan Rajaratnam | NC State B | Liberty B | 106 | -5 |
| Alex Baker | Cambridge B | Manchester | 111 | -5 |
| Caleb Ott | Waterloo A | McGill A | 111 | 10 |
| Raymond Chen | Toronto B | Queen's | 115 | 10 |
| Omer Keskin | Edinburgh A | Bristol | 115 | 10 |
| Yrwin Batan | MIT | Brandeis B | 117 | 10 |
| Eveline Ong | Oxford A | Warwick A | 117 | 10 |
| Jaskaran Singh | UCLA B | UCSD A | 126 | 10 |
| William Gillard | Warwick B | City St. George's | 127 | 10 |
| Kevin Le | Carleton University | Toronto Metropolitan | 128 | 10 |
| Sean Gao | Toronto E | Simon Fraser | 128 | 10 |
| Josh Schmidt | Liberty A | North Carolina C | 128 | 10 |
| Alvin Guo | Chicago A | Chicago C | 128 | 10 |
| Andrei Hui | Cambridge A | Imperial A | 128 | 10 |
| Daniel Hobba | Cambridge C | Oxford C | 128 | 10 |
| Milan Fernandez | Brock | Toronto D | 130 | 10 |
| Freddie Lancett | Cardiff | Imperial C | 131 | 10 |
| Nick Smemoe | North Carolina A | Liberty C | 132 | 10 |
| Gus Redding | Imperial B | Durham | 134 | 10 |
| Kayla Drajpuch | Brandeis A | Harvard B | 135 | 10 |
| Richard Pollard | UCL | Montpellier | 135 | 10 |
| Arthur Bellamy | Oxford B | Southampton B | 135 | 10 |
| Evan Gniadek | Purdue B | Northwestern C | 135 | 10 |
| Aden Sun | Chicago B | Chicago D | 138 | 10 |
| Mikey Brown | Birmingham | LSE | 140 | 10 |
| Russell Nip | UBC A | McGill B | 140 | 10 |
| Henry Siegler | Toronto G | Western B | 140 | 10 |
| Sasha Fillbrandt | Washington A | Claremont | 140 | 10 |
| Rayton Lin | Waterloo B | Toronto F | 141 | 10 |
| James Horsley | Iowa State | Carleton College | 141 | 10 |
| Stefan Stealey-Euchner | Arizona State | UC Santa Barbara | 142 | 10 |
| Michael Wu | Southampton A | Edinburgh B | 142 | 10 |
| Mark Cheng | UCSD C | UC Irvine | 145 | 0 |
| Johanna Bryant | Liberty B | NC State B | 145 | 0 |
| Trey Lewis | South Carolina A | VCU | 145 | 10 |
| Joshua Iyo | North Carolina B | South Carolina B | 145 | 10 |
| Nermeen Rahman | Indiana B | Chicago E | 145 | 10 |
| Christopher Bradley | Southern Connecticut State | Bowdoin B | 145 | 10 |
| Kai Madgwick | Manchester | Cambridge B | 145 | 10 |
| Timothy Chiu | Northwestern D | Notre Dame B | 145 | 10 |
| Shardul Parthasarathy | Illinois B | Purdue A | 145 | 10 |