African Literature

Question 1

“The Cradle of Humankind”

Answer 1

Africa

Question 2

Praise singers who perform with accompanying music to enhance narratives

Answer 2

Griots

Question 3

When did oral tradition flourish in multiple cultures across the continent?

Answer 3

15th Century BCE

Question 4

This narrative was an intense depiction of a slave’s suffering; intended for the British government

Answer 4

The Interesting Narrative of the Life and Adventures of Olaudah Equiano or Gustavus Vassa, the African

Question 5

Wrote “On Liberty and Slavery” and was a slave

Answer 5

George Moses Horton

Question 6

This century was the rise of resistance movements, literary works that expressed the Africa’s deisre to be freed from oppression

Answer 6

19th century

Question 7

Year when the newspapers came to be a vehicle of expression for the audacious African writers

Answer 7

1800s

Question 8

The term used to refer to Africa because there have been many fossils and tools found there which indicate that early human life originated in the continent

Answer 8

“The Cradle of Humankind”

Question 9

True or False: Oral literature Documented the exploits of communities’ folk heroes, reminding the members of the community about their traditions, and entertaining the youth while also educating them

Answer 9

True

Question 10

It is the principle/ advocacy of the political union of all the indigenous inhabitants of Africa during Post-Independence

Answer 10

Pan africanism

Question 11

Praise singers I’m Africa who perform with accompanying music to enhance narratives

Answer 11

Griots

Question 12

How do Europeans described the African tradition when they arrived in their continen?

Answer 12

Savage/ uncivilized

Question 13

What part if African history is the time when Africa are still completely free from the influences of the colonizers

Answer 13

Pre colonial

Question 14

It is a literary criticism that attempts to show the relationship between literature and the social-mainky economic-conditions under which it was produced

Answer 14

Marxism

Question 15

Countries that are major players at the Berlin Conference

Answer 15

France, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany

Question 16

What sought to discuss the partitioning of Africa, establishing the rules to divide resources among the Western countries at the expense of the African people

Answer 16

Berlin Conference

Question 17

The term used to refer to Africans, which has a perception of oneself that they no longer value their African ancestry and traditions

Answer 17

Pseudo Africans

Question 18

Who is Equiano’s audience in his narrative to whom it is intended for?

Answer 18

British government

Question 19

Who has a narrative titled “Chaka” that drew inspiration from local figures to express reactions against colonial expression

Answer 19

Thomas Mafolo

Question 20

Equiano write his narrative in order to abolish what specific thing?

Answer 20

Atlantic slave trade

Question 21

An anti-colonial cultural a d political movement that was started by a group of Africans and Carribean students who wanted to recover the worth of the people of color and African literature

Answer 21

Negritude Movement

Question 22

When did the oral tradition flourished in multiple cultures across the continent of Africa?

Answer 22

15th century

Question 23

How many countries were involved in the Berlin Conference

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14

Question 24

This was used to convey the horrors of slavery

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Poetry

Question 25

This century was the rise of movements, literary works that expressed the African’s desire to be freed from the oppression came

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19th century

Question 26

Which country did the negritude movement started?

Answer 26

Paris

Question 27

Who Spearheaded the movement?

Answer 27

Africans and Caribbeans

Question 28

A transatlantic trading system that forcibly transported millions of Africans from their homelands in West and Central Africa to the Americas between the 16th and 19th century

Answer 28

Atlantic Slave Trade

Question 29

A type of literary criticism based on the writings of German philosopher Karl Marx

Answer 29

Marxism

Question 30

True or False: Marx said that for a change to happen, the lower classes should clash with the ruling class in revolution

Answer 30

True

Question 31

What are the 3Gs?

Answer 31

God, Gold, Glory

Question 32

Aimed to celebrate and affirm the cultural identity, heritage, and experiences of people of African descent

Answer 32

Negritude Movement