Round 11: Tossup 1

In a novel from this country, the protagonist falls in love with a barmaid after moving to Ilmorog. In another novel, Kihika kills a district officer in this country, causing him to be hanged after Mugo turns him in. The narrator falls in love with Denys Finch Hatton in a memoir set on one of this country’s coffee plantations. This country’s native languages are advocated in favor of the “cultural bomb” English in a collection by its author Ngũgĩ wa (10[1])Thiong’o (“nʼGOO-gee wah thee-ON-go”). Kikuyu laborers man a farm in this country in Isak Dinesen’s memoir Out of Africa. For 10 points, name this East African country where Ngũgĩ once taught at the University of Nairobi. ■END■

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