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This author wrote a play about a family whose duty is to carry a dwarf boat out to the river once a year. This author created a group of women that chants “little children are our champions” after their daughters mock and chase away a policeman (10[1])trying to stop a wedding. (10[1])Jaguna’s trap kills the protagonist of a play by this author, in which a mentally challenged boy is replaced as the “carrier” by Eman. In a play by this author of The Strong Breed, the “mother of the market” allows the protagonist to marry and sleep with her son’s fiancée. Despite his assurances to the Praise-Singer in one of this author’s plays, (10[1])the father of the medical student Olunde hesitates until Simon Pilkings stops him from committing ritual suicide. For 10 points, name this Nigerian author of Death and the King’s Horseman. ■END■

ANSWER: Wole Soyinka [or Akinwande Oluwole Babatunde Soyinka]
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Ryan FangStanford AStanford L4510
Eve FleisigBerkeley CStanford M5010
Nathaniel HullBerkeley ABerkeley B11210

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