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One of these places is home to a corpse-littered town of sinners where the sun only shines half the year, called the City of Filth. In a play titled for these places, a prostitute doubles as a member of a court who orders a soldier’s castration and his pregnant wife’s execution. While in this sort of place, a novel’s hero encounters sand-elves, a sixteen-eyed monster, and other “ghommids.” In a play celebrating a country’s independence, the “Head” of these places (10[1])invites the Dead Man and Dead Woman to (10[1])a masquerade for the (10[1])dead. (10[2])The hunter “Compound of Spells,” or (10[1])Akara-Ogun, ventures (10[2])into one of these places (10[2])in a book by D. O. Fágúnwà (10[1])considered the first Yoruba novel. Wole (10[1])Soyinka titled (10[1])a play after a “Dance” (10[1])of these (10[2])natural (10[1])places. (10[1])For 10 points, in Things Fall Apart, Umuofia buries (10[1])their dead (10[1])in an (10[2])“evil” type (10[2])of what sort of place? ■END■

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