Question

Several groups in this modern-day country buried their legendary homeland’s fingo talismans within sacred kaya forests. A theologian born in this country used the tenses of the verb “to come” in two of its languages to explain concepts of potential and actual time, or sasa and zamani. In this country, goats were sacrificed under sacred sycamore fig trees by an ethnic group that traditionally looks towards this country’s (*) highest mountain when praying (-5[1])to the supreme god Ngai. John Arthur excommunicated a native of this country with the Christian name “Johnstone” over his support of “irua.” That native of this country later wrote about the aforementioned FGM practice in an anthropological study (10[1])with an introduction (10[2])by Bronislaw Malinowski. For 10 points, on what country’s namesake (-5[1])mountain does God reside per the tradition of its Kikuyu people? ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Kenya [or Republic of Kenya; or Jamhuri ya Kenya] (The first sentence refers to the Mijikenda peoples of Kenya’s coast; the second refers to John Mbiti’s book African Religions and Philosophies.)
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Maude-Sophie Lockmanas rational as the square root of two power bottomsSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donut71-5
Erik ChristensenI'd prefer to have the team name be Christensen et al. than anything that Erik cooks up Communism is Soviet power plus the yassification of the whole country11010
Micah ColmanTensei Shitara Flashcard Data KenYou cannot go to Aarhus to see his peat-brown head / With eyes like ripening fruit11310
Jack van NostrandRyan Wesley Routh's 10 000 NATO-trained Afghan QuizbowlersModerator Can't Neg me While in Alpha11310
Raymond ChenShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA InterfereThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork Orange123-5
Benjamin ChapmanSimpson Agonistes: The Crisis of Donutas rational as the square root of two power bottoms13510
Adrian WongThe Only Existing Manuscript from A Clockwork OrangeShe Dicer On My Argonaute Till I RNA Interfere13510

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