The Education of a British-protected Child

The Education of a British-protected Child Essays

Chinua Achebe2009
A volume of seventeen essays explores various aspects of the author's life, including his childhood in colonial Nigeria, encounters with the African-American diaspora, his family life, and the symbolism of Barack Obama's election.
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Marion R@mariorugu
5 stars
Jul 13, 2023

I need to read more Achebe


Loved this

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Gavin@gl
2 stars
Mar 9, 2023

Title suggests nostalgia for colonialism: you need to know who he is for the gag to work. He waffles a bit, full of avuncular banality more than post-colonial ire. The most shocking bit is about Jim Crow in Africa – up to 1961, black people had to sat behind a partition at the back of the bus, in fucking Zambia.

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Alexander Lobov@alexlobov
4 stars
Jun 10, 2022
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May 7, 2022

Highlights

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Marion R@mariorugu

I Offer mbari as one illustration of my precolonial

inheritance- of art as celebration of my reality; of art in its social dimension; of the creative potential in all of us; and of the need to exercise this latent energy again and again in artistic expression and communal, cooperative enterprises.

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