Question

The two-person “Mouth-That-Eats-Salt-and-Pepper” make up the chorus of a play from this country that retells a folktale of the Devil in disguise as a handsome suitor. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this country home to the author of Anowa, Ama Ata Aidoo. This is also the home country of the author of The Beautyful Ones Are Not Yet Born, Ayi Kwei Armah.
ANSWER: Ghana [or Republic of Ghana]
[10e] Aidoo’s first novel, about a Ghanaian woman who travels to Germany and England, is titled for a “Killjoy” of this relation. Ophelia bears this relation to Laertes in Hamlet.
ANSWER: sister [accept Our Sister Killjoy]
[10h] Aidoo’s story “Two Sisters” appears in Daughters of Africa, an anthology of Black female authors edited by this Ghanaian-British publisher. This woman was appointed CBE in 2021 for her efforts to publish Black authors in the UK.
ANSWER: Margaret Busby [accept Nana Akua Ackon]
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