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

AChinua Achebe

BWole Soyinka

CNgũgĩ wa Thiong’o

DDerek Walcott

Answer:

B. Wole Soyinka

Read Explanation:

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.


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