Question 1
Which Nigerian novelist wrote the landmark novel "Things Fall Apart"?
- Chinua Achebe
- Amos Tutuola
- Wole Soyinka
- Ben Okri
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Chinua Achebe
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African Authors trivia quiz
African Authors trivia, played live: seven rounds, ten seconds a question. QuizDown has over 120 African Authors questions, from easy to expert, and you’re matched with a real player who gets the same seven.
What the African Authors questions cover
- Nigerian Fiction
- Zimbabwean Fiction
- South African Fiction
- Egyptian Feminism
- Egyptian Fiction
- Ghanaian Fiction
- Kenyan Fiction
- Sudanese Fiction
- Botswanan Fiction
- Nigerian Diaspora
- Apartheid Fiction
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Question 2
Which writer authored the novel "Half of a Yellow Sun"?
- Mariama Bâ
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
- Lola Shoneyin
- Buchi Emecheta
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Question 3
Which Nigerian playwright became Africa's first Nobel Prize winner in Literature?
- Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o
- Ben Okri
- Wole Soyinka
- Chinua Achebe
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Wole Soyinka
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