Question
The surgeon Kweku Sai tells of the birth of his daughter Sadie and the downfall of his career right before dying in a Taiye Selasi novel titled [this country] Must Go. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this country, the setting of a novel that centers on the descendants of Maame’s daughters Effia and Esi, which ends with Marcus going to visit the dungeons.
ANSWER: Ghana [or Republic of Ghana] (The second novel is Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi.)
[10m] In her essay “Bye-Bye Babar,” Selasi popularized a term combining this prefix with “politan.” Mark Dery coined a term for a sci-fi-inspired literary movement with this prefix whose authors include Samuel R. Delany and Octavia Butler.
ANSWER: Afro [or Afropolitanism; or Afrofuturism]
[10e] Selasi's formulation of Afropolitanism inspired this author’s novel about Ifemelu, who immigrates to the U.S., titled Americanah. This Nigerian-born author of “We Should All Be Feminists” also wrote Half a Yellow Sun.
ANSWER: Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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