Question
Massa Makan Diabaté (“dee-yah-bah-TAY”) condemned colonial-era vestiges of these people and adapted his training as one in his novel about a colonial soldier, The Lieutenant of Kouta. For 10 points each:
[10e] Camara Laye (“cam-uh-ruh lay”) based The Guardian of the World on recordings of what West African oral storytellers?
ANSWER: griots (“GREE-ohs”) [or griottes, djalis, djélis, gewels, kewels, or okawul]
[10m] An author with this surname wrote The Fortunes of Wangrin, whose title speculator is praised by his griot (“GREE-oh”) for schemes that ruin the French official Villermoz. A Senegalese author with this surname wrote an epistolary novel about the widow Ramatoulaye.
ANSWER: Bâ [accept Mariama Bâ; accept Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Ahmadu Hampaate Baa, Hampâté Bâ, or Hampaate Baa; prompt on Hampâté or Hampaate by asking “what was his other surname?”] (The epistolary novel is So Long a Letter.)
[10h] This Martinican (“mar-tin-EEK-in”) author’s Book of the Bush adapted folktales he heard as an administrator in Ubangi-Shari. He romanticized Banda traditions in Batouala (“bah-twah-lah”), the first novel by a Black author to win the Prix Goncourt (“PREE gon-KOOR”).
ANSWER: René Maran
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Summary
| 2024 ACF Nationals | 2024-04-21 | Y | 24 | 15.42 | 100% | 54% | 0% |
Data
| Florida | Arizona State | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Northwestern | Berkeley A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago B | Columbia A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Chicago C | Truman State | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Berkeley B | Chicago D | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Duke | Claremont Colleges | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Columbia B | Penn | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Stanford | Cornell A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Cornell B | Harvard | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Indiana | Waterloo | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Iowa State | Georgia Tech | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Maryland | Brown | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Minnesota B | McGill | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Illinois | NYU | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Purdue | Minnesota A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| WUSTL B | Rutgers | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Kentucky | South Carolina | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| North Carolina A | Texas | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Toronto A | Michigan | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| North Carolina B | Vanderbilt | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |
| Toronto B | Virginia | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Chicago A | WUSTL A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale A | Johns Hopkins | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Yale B | Ottawa | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 |