Round 16: Tossup 15

Fake letters in this language form a 1929 novel of a courtesan’s thousand lovers, I. B. Thomas’s The Life Story of Me. This language’s “native air operas,” like The Throne of God, drew on apidàn improv sketches. Bàtá orchestras accompany spells in a play in this language in which Tìmì is beheaded by the general of a ruler who becomes a god in a thunderstorm. A posthumous novel titled for (10[1])a “boy running” fictionalizes the chief translator of this language’s Bibeli Mimọ, (-5[1])Bishop Samuel Crowther. (10[1])“Compound-of-Spells” battles ghommids in a 1937 (-5[1])“hunter’s saga” in this language that was translated as (10[1])Forest of Thousand (-5[1])Daemons. (10[2])This language’s (10[1])oríkì poems praise the 256 (-5[1])odu verses, (-5[1])each associated with hymns, in its Ifá (-5[1])corpus. (10[2])For 10 points, what language’s (10[1])folktales (10[1])informed My (10[1])Life (10[1])in the Bush of Ghosts (10[1]-5[1])and The Palm-Wine (10[1]-5[1])Drinkard (-5[1])by Amos (10[1])Tutuola? (10[1])■END■ (10[7]0[1])

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