In this play, a romantic song and dance sequence involving Kiguunda and Wangeci (“WAHN-geh-chee”) segues into protestors singing “freedom.” For 10 points each:
[10m] Name this play in which Gathoni (“GAH-thoe-nee”) is abandoned by her upper class lover. This play’s political themes led to the arrest of its two co-authors, who share a common last name.
ANSWER: I Will Marry When I Want [or Ngaahika Ndeenda]
[10e] Kikuyu song and dance inspired this co-author of I Will Marry When I Want. His novel Petals of Blood is set just after Kenya’s independence.
ANSWER: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o [or James Ngugi]
[10h] Ngugi wrote that African literature could achieve this quality by including oral traditions. Efforts to center Kenyan curriculums around African texts are discussed in a chapter of Decolonising the Mind titled for the “quest” for this quality.
ANSWER: relevance [accept “The Quest for Relevance”]
<Albert Nyang, World Literature>