Question
Taiye Selasi popularized this term in the essay “Bye-Bye Babar,” which describes figures from her home continent identifiable from their “London fashion, New York Jargon, and academic successes.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this term that Achille Mbembe (“ah-SHEEL em-BEM-bay”) applied to highly mobile writers like Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (“ah-DEECH-yay”). This portmanteau term blends two elements: a prefix from a “pessimism” theorized by Frank B. Wilderson and the [emphasize] second part of an ideology promoted in a 2006 book by Kwame Anthony Appiah (“APP-ee-uh”).
ANSWER: Afropolitan [or Afropolitanism]
[10m] We Need New Names, a novel from this country, is often called Afropolitan. The authors Dambudzo Marechera and Tsitsi Dangarembga were born in this country.
ANSWER: Zimbabwe [or Republic of Zimbabwe] (We Need New Names is by NoViolet Bulawayo.)
[10e] An essay by M. Rocío Cobo-Piñero classifies Noo Saro-Wiwa’s Looking for Transwonderland as an Afropolitan work in this genre. The writings of Ibn Battuta and Marco Polo are often read as pre-modern works in this genre.
ANSWER: travel writing [or travelogues or travels; prompt on memoirs or autobiographies]
<TH, World Literature>
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