In Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', the landlady's repeated question about the colour of the speaker's skin serves primarily to

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expose the absurdity and dehumanizing nature of racial prejudice. The landlady's obsessive questioning about the exact shade of the speaker's skin colour is used by Soyinka to satirize and expose racial prejudice as irrational and dehumanizing. By reducing a human being to a skin tone on a spectrum, the poem highlights the absurdity of racism.

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A) show her genuine curiosity about African culture

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B) expose the absurdity and dehumanizing nature of racial prejudice

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C) suggest that she is hard of hearing

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D) demonstrate the speaker's reluctance to identify himself

In Wole Soyinka's 'Telephone Conversation', the landlady's repeated question about the colour of the speaker's skin serves primarily to

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