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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Summary
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Berkeley | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Cornell | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 16.67 | 100% | 33% | 33% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 10 | 8.00 | 70% | 10% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 6 | 16.67 | 100% | 67% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 75% | 25% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 16.00 | 100% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ MIT | 01/27/2024 | Y | 3 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
Data
| John Jay | Penn | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| NYU A | Rowan | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vassar | Columbia C | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Columbia B | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU B | Haverford | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |