Question
The 3,000-stanza epic Utenzi wa Vita vya Uhuru, which chronicles World War II in the style of this country’s poetry, is the magnum opus of Shaaban bin Robert, this country’s national poet. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this modern-day country, where Yusuf runs after a column of conscripted men at the start of World War I after returning with Uncle Aziz’s caravan at the end of one novel.
ANSWER: Tanzania [or United Republic of Tanzania or Jamhuri ya Muungano wa Tanzania] (The novel is Paradise.)
[10e] This South African author discussed the history of Tanzania in an essay for The Atlantic. This author also wrote Burger’s Daughter and July’s People.
ANSWER: Nadine Gordimer
[10m] Ilyas searches for his uncle in Germany after World War II at the end of this author’s novel Afterlives. This Tanzanian-born author of Paradise won the 2021 Nobel Prize in Literature.
ANSWER: Abdulrazak Gurnah
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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 | 2 | 15.00 | 100% | 50% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ JMU | 01/27/2024 | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 86% | 57% | 14% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Nebraska | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 60% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Ohio State | 01/27/2024 | Y | 2 | 10.00 | 100% | 0% | 0% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Rutgers | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 80% | 40% | 20% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Imperial | 01/27/2024 | Y | 8 | 12.50 | 63% | 50% | 13% |
| 2024 ACF Regionals @ Vanderbilt | 01/27/2024 | Y | 5 | 12.00 | 100% | 20% | 0% |
Data
| Columbia C | Johns Hopkins | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Haverford | NYU A | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Vassar | John Jay | 0 | 10 | 10 | 20 |
| NYU B | Penn | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Columbia A | Rowan | 10 | 10 | 10 | 30 |