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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. When did Professor Micere Mũgo give a speech in Nairobi entitled "Written Literature and Black Images"?
2. What term from Chapter 1, Part VI refers to a person within a country who acts as an agent for foreign organizations engaged in investment, trade, or economic or political exploitation?
3. When was the Ituĩka ceremony banned in Kenya?
4. When did the Kenya Land and Freedom Army usher in the era of modern guerilla warfare in Africa?
5. Hausa is the first language of approximately how many people?
Short Essay Questions
1. What role did drama play in pre-colonial Kenyan life?
2. What was the Kamĩrĩĩthhũ Community Education and Culture Centre?
3. What are the main characters anticipating in the opening of Ngaahika Ndeenda?
4. When did Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o cease writing in English? What were his first works in Gĩkũyũ?
5. How does the author describe Kamĩrĩĩthũ? Where is it located? How many people live there?
6. How does the author describe the peasant's relationship to language in Chapter 1, Part VII?
7. What literary convention does the author describe in Chapter 1, Part II? Who attended?
8. What does the author describe as the effects of one's written language being separated from one's environmental language?
9. What are the mutually opposed forces in African realities today, according to the author in his Introduction?
10. Who is David Diop and what was his perspective on language?
Essay Topics
Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:
Essay Topic 1
Describe the origins and history of drama, ritual, and ceremony in Africa. Where does all drama originate, according to the author? What rituals were performed in pre-colonial Africa? What happened to African drama during colonization?
Essay Topic 2
Who were Léopold Sédar Senghor and Chinua Achebe? In what languages did they each write? What works did they publish? What criticisms does the author observe of these authors?
Essay Topic 3
Describe the oral storytelling traditions of Kenya. What were the subjects of these stories? How were they related and who was the audience? What happened to these oral traditions when colonization came to dominate the continent?
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