Daily Archives: May 12, 2024

Boys will be boys? How schools can be guilty of gender bias

That’s the issue at the heart of Boys Don’t Try?, the book he has co-authored with fellow English teacher Mark Roberts; as its subtitle explains, it is all about “rethinking masculinity in schools”. Continue reading

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Chinua Achebe | Things Fall Apart… 66 Years Later

Through his fiction and non-fiction works, Nigerian author Chinua Achebe has sought to repair the damage done to the continent of Africa and its people as a result of European colonization. This is best exemplified in his most famous novel “Things Fall Apart,” one of the first African novels written in English to achieve national acclaim Continue reading

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