Question

In a story set in this country, the protagonist recalls a joke about a banner reading “WE ARE IMPREGNABLE.” The protagonist of another story from this country stops visiting his old coal mining job because “nobody could say what was what.” A story from this country ends as a man flees his car during an air raid, allowing his lover Gladys to die. The collection Girls at War (15[1])contains (15[1])stories of a conflict in this nation by an author who recalled that conflict in the memoir (*) There Was a Country. The phrase “nothing puzzles God” ends a story from this country about a bike courier who has his twenty-pound “egg-rasher” stolen from him. After leaving this country in 1972, the author of “Civil Peace” attacked Heart of Darkness in his lecture “An Image of Africa.” For 10 points, name this home country of Chinua Achebe. ■END■

ANSWER: Nigeria [or the Federal Republic of Nigeria]
<HG, World Literature>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Anuttam RamjiBerkeley BBerkeley A6715
Shahar SchwartzBerkeley PastStanford6815

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2024 ARCADIA at Waterloo2024-11-09Y1100%0%0%89.00
2024 ARCADIA at Illinois2024-11-09Y1100%0%100%144.00
2024 ARCADIA at UC Berkeley2024-12-06Y2100%100%0%67.50