Round 12: Tossup 14

In a poem titled for this type of work, the speaker compares his suffering to stepping in “chameleon feces” since “Dzogbese Lisa has treated me thus”; that poem is by Kofi Awoonor. This type of work titles a poem whose speaker criticizes her husband’s interests in ballroom dance, European food, (15[1])and the white-mimicking woman Clementine. This type of work titles a pair of poems by the Acholi-language poet (*) Okot p’Bitek about the marital feud of Ocol and Lawino. “Shadow” examples of these works title a collection that includes “Prayer to Masks” by Leopold Senghor. A teasing character named for performing this type of work questions the story of the Not-I bird told by Elesin Oba. For 10 points, a form of praise poetry performed as what type of work is practiced by a namesake character in Death and the King’s Horseman? ■END■

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