Question

Massa Makan Diabaté (“dee-yah-bah-TAY”) condemned colonial-era vestiges of these people and adapted his training as one in his novel about a colonial soldier, The Lieutenant of Kouta. For 10 points each:
[10e] Camara Laye (“cam-uh-ruh lay”) based The Guardian of the World on recordings of what West African oral storytellers?
ANSWER: griots (“GREE-ohs”) [or griottes, djalis, djélis, gewels, kewels, or okawul]
[10m] An author with this surname wrote The Fortunes of Wangrin, whose title speculator is praised by his griot (“GREE-oh”) for schemes that ruin the French official Villermoz. A Senegalese author with this surname wrote an epistolary novel about the widow Ramatoulaye.
ANSWER: Bâ [accept Mariama Bâ; accept Amadou Hampâté Bâ, Ahmadu Hampaate Baa, Hampâté Bâ, or Hampaate Baa; prompt on Hampâté or Hampaate by asking “what was his other surname?”] (The epistolary novel is So Long a Letter.)
[10h] This Martinican (“mar-tin-EEK-in”) author’s Book of the Bush adapted folktales he heard as an administrator in Ubangi-Shari. He romanticized Banda traditions in Batouala (“bah-twah-lah”), the first novel by a Black author to win the Prix Goncourt (“PREE gon-KOOR”).
ANSWER: René Maran
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Data

TeamOpponentPart 1Part 2Part 3Total
Berkeley BChicago D100010
Chicago AWUSTL A1010020
Chicago BColumbia A100010
Chicago CTruman State100010
Columbia BPenn100010
Cornell BHarvard100010
DukeClaremont Colleges1010020
FloridaArizona State1010020
IllinoisNYU1010020
IndianaWaterloo1010020
Iowa StateGeorgia Tech1010020
KentuckySouth Carolina100010
MarylandBrown1010020
Minnesota BMcGill100010
North Carolina ATexas1010020
North Carolina BVanderbilt100010
NorthwesternBerkeley A100010
PurdueMinnesota A100010
StanfordCornell A1010020
Toronto AMichigan1010020
Toronto BVirginia1010020
WUSTL BRutgers1010020
Yale AJohns Hopkins1010020
Yale BOttawa100010

Summary

TournamentEditionExact Match?HeardPPBEasy %Medium %Hard %
2024 ACF Nationals04/21/2024Y2415.42100%54%0%