Which of the following is written by an African playwright?

Analyze the question: You are asked to pick the play written by an African playwright. So you need to know the author and nationality of each work.

Go through the options:

• A. *She Stoops to Conquer* is a comic play by Oliver Goldsmith (1773). He was Anglo-Irish, so this is not African.
• B. *A Raisin in the Sun* is by Lorraine Hansberry (1959). She was African-American. The play is about an African-American family in Chicago, but she is not African.
• C. *Lonely Days* is a novel by Bayo Adebowale (Nigerian). It is African, but it is a novel, not a play, so it does not fit "playwright."
• D. *The Blood of a Stranger* is a play by Dele Charley, a Sierra Leonean dramatist. It is an African play and fits the question.

Answer: The only option that is both a play and written by an African is D. *The Blood of a Stranger*.

Exam tip: Check two things in questions like this: the genre (drama, prose, poetry) and the author's origin. Option C is a trap because it is African but is not drama. For WASSCE Literature, keep a short list of set texts by genre and region. For example, African drama includes Soyinka, Osofisan, Rotimi, Sutherland, and Dele Charley, while non-African drama includes Goldsmith, Shakespeare, and Hansberry.