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Which animal are all Akan folk tales named after?
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What did Ngũgĩ write Devil on the Cross on in prison?
Answer: Toilet paper
Why: He was held without trial for almost a year at Kenya's Kamiti Maximum Security Prison.
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What nation's flag gave Half of a Yellow Sun its title?
Answer: Biafra
Why: Biafra's flag, with its golden rising half-sun, flew only from May 1967 to January 1970.
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What does Coetzee's Michael K grow on the abandoned farm?
Answer: Pumpkins
Why: In 1983 the novel won Coetzee the Booker Prize, and in 1999 Disgrace won him a second one.
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What crop is the king of crops in Things Fall Apart?
Answer: Yam
Why: Yams are a man's crop in the novel, while women grow coco-yams, beans and cassava.
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Where was the Négritude movement born?
Answer: Paris
Why: The movement's three founders came from Martinique, Senegal and French Guiana and started a student magazine together in Paris.
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What creature guides Camara Laye's father in The Dark Child?
Answer: A snake
Why: The crocodile is a trap: it is the totem of the narrator's mother, not of his father.
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