KIDS QUIZ
FAMOUS AUTHORS AND THEIR BOOKS
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[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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Chinua Achebe
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Wole Soyinka
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N’Gugi Wa Thiango
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Soyinka was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1986, becoming the first African laureate. He was described as one “who in a wide cultural perspective and with poetic overtones fashions the drama of existence".
Detailed explanation-2: -The first Black African recipient, Albert Luthuli, was awarded the Peace Prize in 1960 and the first White African who received the prize was Max Theiler in 1951 for Physiology or Medicine. The most recent recipient, Abdulrazak Gurnah, was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2021.
Detailed explanation-3: -Ralph Bunche received the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize for his late 1940s work as a United Nations mediator in the Palestine conflict. He called himself ‘an incurable optimist’. Bunche was the first African American and person of color to be so honored in the history of the prize.