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Question

In an epic from this country, the title character is more worried about her husband’s preference for ballroom-style dances than his adultery with Clementine. For 10 points each:

[10h] Name this home country of Okot p’Bitek (“aw-COT puh-bee-TEK”), who criticized the effects of colonization in the modern epics the Song of Ocol and the Song of Lawino.

ANSWER: Uganda [accept Republic of Uganda; accept Jamhuri ya Uganda]

[10m] Mazisi Kunene translated an epic poem about this historical figure in 1979 for the Heinemann African Writer Series. This historical figure was also the subject of a 1925 novel by Thomas Mofolo.

ANSWER: Shaka Zulu [accept Emperor Shaka the Great; accept Chaka]

[10e] The ancient Malian Epic of Sundiata was passed down through the tradition of these West African singer-musicians.

ANSWER: griots (“GREE-ohs”)

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