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Famous People Quiz for 3 May 2016

A new people quiz is available each week. Try our daily general knowledge quiz or work through our archive of daily and themed quizzes.

Question 1: Which poet, professor and novelist, whose first novel is considered the most widely read in modern African literature, died in Boston, USA, in 2013 at the age of 82?

A
Wole Soyinka, from Nigeria
B
Chinua Achebe, from Nigeria
C
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, from Nigeria
D
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, from Kenya