Question

In an essay subtitled “The Revenge,” this author complained about the number of white people who email him about an earlier essay that became “the most-forwarded story in Granta history.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this founder of the journal Kwani? A satirical essay by this author instructs, “Describe, in detail, … dead bodies,” and ends by mentioning “rainbows or renaissances, because you care.”
ANSWER: Binyavanga Wainaina [or Kenneth Binyavanga Wainaina]
[10e] That Wainaina essay is titled “How to Write About” this place. Chinua Achebe attacked Joseph Conrad’s depiction of this place in an essay titled “An Image of” this place.
ANSWER: Africa
[10m] Ikhide Ikheloa’s essay “How Not to Write About Africa” criticizes the story “Hitting Budapest” by NoViolet Bulawayo, a Caine Prize winner from this country.
ANSWER: Zimbabwe [or Republic of Zimbabwe]
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Tufts BTufts A010010
Dartmouth ADartmouth B0101020
Harvard BHarvard A010010