Question

Who is the author of the poem “Telephone Conversation”?

• A. Chinua Achebe
• B. Wole Soyinka
• C. Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
• D. Derek Walcott

Answer 1

Answer:

B. Wole Soyinka

The poem was written by Nigerian writer and Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka in 1963. It satirizes racism through a phone conversation between a landlady and an African man.