Test your knowledge of African Literature with our fun quiz! From the four coasts of the mother continent we’ve dug deep to bring you questions from all walks of African Life.
The Fantastic African Literature Quiz
Results
#1. Which African country is the setting for Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie?
Unlucky! Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s novel was set in Nigeria
#2. What is the title of Wole Soyinka's debut novel?
Unlucky! The Interpreters, published in 1965, was his first novel
#3. So Long a Letter is written by which Senegalese author?
Unlucky! Mariama Bâ (pictured with her son in 1958) was the author
#4. South African author J.M Coetzee novel is titled Waiting for the ........?
Unlucky! Waiting for the Barbarians is the title
#5. Which novel by Guinean author Camara Laye is autobiographical?
Unlucky! L’Enfant Noir was his autobiographical novel
#6. In 2022, NoViolet Bulawayo published her 2nd novel titled?
Unlucky! Glory was the title of the Zimbabwean writer’s 2nd Novel
#7. Which of these titles was not part of the Cairo Trilogy by Naguib Mahfouz?
Unlucky! Midaq Alley was one of his earlier works and not part of the Cairo Trilogy
#8. Albert Camus's classic novel The Stranger was set in which country?
Unlucky! The Stranger was set in Algeria where Camus was born and grew up.
#9. Who wrote Beneath the Lion's Gaze?
Unlucky! It was Ethiopian author Maaza Mengiste’s debut novel published in 2010.
#10. Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi tells a story of.... in West Africa?
Unlucky! Yaa Gyasi’s extraordinary novel illuminates slavery’s troubled legacy both for those who were taken and those who stayed
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