Question
Rajat Neogy launched Transition Magazine among writers at this university, where Isaac and the narrator lead a “paper revolution” in the novel All Our Names. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this university where Mugezi studies in the novel Abyssinian Chronicles. This alma mater of Peter Nazareth and Timothy Wangusa hosted a 1962 conference on anglophone writing organized by Es’kia Mphahlele (“um-pah-LEH-leh”).
ANSWER: Makerere University [or Makerere College; accept MAK or Makerere Conference; prompt on University of East Africa] (Dinaw Mengestu wrote All Our Names. The conference is also called the African Writers Conference.)
[10e] Austin Bukenya’s novel The People’s Bachelor satirizes Makerere under this leader, whose regime was fictionalized by Moses Isegawa’s Snakepit and Giles Foden’s The Last King of Scotland.
ANSWER: Idi Amin [or Idi Amin Dada or Idi Amin Dada Oumee]
[10m] In a Johannes Anyuru novel titled “A Storm Blew in from” this place, Idi Amin’s coup leads the pilot P. to be detained. Yusuf trades in the interior as Uncle Aziz’s debt slave in an Abdulrazak Gurnah novel titled for this place.
ANSWER: paradise [accept A Storm Blew in from Paradise; reject putative equivalents like “heaven”]
<Nick Jensen, World Literature>
Summary
| 2023 Chicago Open | 08/05/2023 | Y | 9 | 18.89 | 100% | 67% | 22% |
Data
| BHSU | Hang et al., Robert Browning | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Romanos IV Diogenes’ Macaroni Grill | Don't be Afraid, the Clown's Afraid Too | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| I prefer really not to speak. If I speak I’m in big trouble | remembrance of lost time | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Evans Hall destruction awaiters | In Search of Things Past | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| The Plague (anime)" was redirected to: "Oran High School Host Club | Quasicrystal Silence | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |
| Teach Us to Outgrow Our Ladness | Saint Peter Andre 3000 | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Team Name Think Detail | The Canadians | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| wave2: trimming membership codes 9655377758gp | The anti-STOON-dahl cabal (the tall Keyal et al.) | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| [moderator voice] yes that is so tenpointscore! is your team feeling bonuspilled? | Curse you, Periplus the Platypus! | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |