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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.
Short Answer Questions
1. What term does the author define in Chapter 1, Part VIII as "literature written by Africans in European languages in the era of imperialism" (27)?
2. Who was the first Kenyan African Drama and Literature officer that oversaw the Schools Drama Festival?
3. How many years of involvement had Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o spent writing literature in Englis when the author began writing in Gĩkũyũ?
4. What was the first school that Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o attended?
5. When did Kenya attain independence from Great Britain?
Short Essay Questions
1. What were Léopold Sédar Senghor's views on language?
2. What significant event in 1884 determined the fate of the future of Africa?
3. In his Introduction, Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o states that the study of African realities has been too long seen in terms of tribes. What does he mean by this?
4. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o cease writing in English? What were his first works in Gĩkũyũ?
5. What are the mutually opposed forces in African realities today, according to the author in his Introduction?
6. What does the author describe as the effects of one's written language being separated from one's environmental language?
7. What literary convention does the author describe in Chapter 1, Part II? Who attended?
8. What are the three aspects of language as culture?
9. What dramas was the author exposed to during his education?
10. Describe the theater that was erected at the Kamĩrĩĩthũ Community Education and Cultural Centre. Where was it located?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
What impacts have colonization and imperialism had on the language of Kenyans and other Africans? How did colonial schools have a part in these impacts? What were the results of the import of European languages in Africa?
Essay Topic 2
Discuss how the printing press and the introduction of colleges and universities in Africa stood as opposing forces for African literature. When was the printing press introduced to Africa and by whom? Who controlled the publication of literature? How did colleges and universities stand as obstacles to African novelists?
Essay Topic 3
What is referred to by the term mental domination in the context of the book? How is language used in mental domination? Why is mental domination necessary in order to achieve economic and political domination over a people?
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