Question
COSAW published a collection of this poet’s previously banned poems, titled When the Clouds Clear, when he returned from exile in 1990. For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this poet whose declaration that “this is the last age of poems” before “guns and rifles” take over inspired the Last Poets, a spoken-word collective formed during his exile in New York in the ’60s.
ANSWER: Keorapetse Kgositsile (“ko-ra-PET-seh ho-set-SEE-leh”) [or Keorapetse William Kgositsile; prompt on Bra Willie]
[10e] Kgositsile’s 1971 collection is titled in reference to this movement, which names the setting of Peter Abrahams’s A Wreath for Udomo. Kwame Nkrumah advocated this movement for worldwide solidarity among Black people.
ANSWER: Pan-Africanism [accept Panafrica; prompt on My Name is Afrika]
[10m] Kgositsile’s work appeared in Poems of Black Africa, a volume that Wole Soyinka edited for the influential “African Writers Series” put out by this London-based publisher.
ANSWER: Heinemann [or William Heinemann Ltd.; accept Heinemann African Writers Series]
<BHSU, World Literature>
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Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 Chicago Open | 07/28/2024 | Y | 12 | 12.50 | 83% | 33% | 8% |