A man with this job becomes a Marxist guerrilla in the novel Between Tides. The cynical cook Zacharia ridicules an absentee with this job who departs Tala country after he learns that the “sixa girls” work at a brothel. An employer of Toundi with this job dies in a motorcycle crash in the first “exercise book” of Ferdinand Oyono’s Houseboy. Before his death is labeled a “doubtful case,” a man with this job speaks of a “flail” threshing above the city’s rooftops. V. Y. Mudimbe’s (“moo-deem-bay’s”) The Invention of Africa critiques the “vital force” outlined by an author with this job in Bantu Philosophy. This is the occupation of Drumont (“drew-MON”) in a satire by Mongo Beti and of a man who justifies children’s suffering in two speeches after Castel’s serum fails to save Othon’s son in Oran (“oh-RAWN”). For 10 points, name this occupation of Paneloux in Albert Camus’s The Plague. ■END■
ANSWER: priests [or fathers, confessors, curates, prêtres, pères, doms, or curés; accept clergy, missionaries, clerics, pastors, ministers, vicars, prelates, Jesuits, Franciscans, friars, or equivalents of any; reject “monks” or “abbots” or “bishops”] (Placide Tempels wrote Bantu Philosophy. Beti wrote The Poor Christ of Bomba.)
<World Literature>
= Average correct buzz position