Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
Unavailable
Unavailable
Unavailable
Ebook37 pages31 minutes
A Lesson in Englishness
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
()
Currently unavailable
Currently unavailable
About this ebook
There are only five other black girls in our class of twenty-six...
________________________
From the author of the critically-acclaimed House of Stone, listed for the Folio Prize, is a short story about growing up in Zimbabwe
________________________
A country school girl attends the prestigious Girls' College in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe and she learns how to be English. She learns pronunciations, learns to pour, sip, and hold tea, and even learns to laugh the English way- Hahaha!...Hahaha... Haaaaa haaaaa haaaa...
But things begin to change for the pupils of Girls' College when Zimbabwe's new president calls for 'A' grade schools to enrol more black pupils.
Unavailable
Related to A Lesson in Englishness
Related ebooks
Kinky Roots: A Memoir NINE LIVES Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Colour Me Yellow: Searching for My Family Truth Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Not Just Another Interlude Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Mangoes in the Rain: No One Can Take Away Your Imaginations Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHullo, Bu-Bye, Koko, Come In Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Madams Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5A Coat of Many Colours Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Lusaka Punk and Other Stories: The Caine Prize for African Writing 2015 Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Soweto, Under the Apricot Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shadows Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Men I've Hated Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Eternal Audience of One Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Everything Good Will Come Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Renegade Called Simphiwe Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Efuru. 50th Anniversary Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Reflecting Rogue: Inside the Mind of a Feminist Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsNaija Stories: Of Tears and Kisses, Heroes and Villains Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5These Bones Will Rise Again Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The God Child Rating: 1 out of 5 stars1/5Wives at War Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/510 Years of the Caine Prize for African Writing: Plus Coetzee, Gordimer, Achebe, Okri Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsViolet's Velvet Adventures: A Novella (The Aso-Ebi Chronicles, Book 4) Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Yellow Means Stay: An anthology of love stories from Africa Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsUnwholesome Past Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAn Act of Defiance Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Memoirs of a Lagos Wedding Planner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Parking Lot Attendant: A Novel Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Best Served Cold Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Bones Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Coming of Age Fiction For You
It Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Demon Copperhead: A Pulitzer Prize Winner Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Finn Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5If We Were Villains: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Island of Missing Trees: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Priory of the Orange Tree Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Body Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Life of Pi: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Nothing to See Here: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Dutch House: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Ocean at the End of the Lane: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Saint X: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Foster Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5All the Ugly and Wonderful Things: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Play It as It Lays: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Yellow Wife: A Novel Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5The Cider House Rules Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Orphan Collector: A Heroic Novel of Survival During the 1918 Influenza Pandemic Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The People We Keep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A River Enchanted: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5My Best Friend's Exorcism: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Island of Sea Women: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Life She Was Given: A Moving and Emotional Saga of Family and Resilient Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Shuggie Bain: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kitchen House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5All the Missing Girls: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5A Likely Story: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Our Town: A Play in Three Acts Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The St. Ambrose School for Girls Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related podcast episodes
Love in Color 0% found this document usefulThe Death of Vivek Oji Part 2: Is This the Perfect Novel? 100% found this document usefultomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow 0% found this document usefulThe Podcast - S2 Ep4: Muslim romance right out of Jane Austen 0% found this document usefulLifting Off with Janice Fialka: "... lift the words off the page..." 0% found this document usefulThe Podcast - Episode 1: Author Soniah Kamal on how Jane Austen is Pakistani 0% found this document usefulWSD Semester Abroad: Race & the South African Wine Industry 0% found this document useful16. That’s a Lot of Peanuts 0% found this document usefulJollification (Santa Claus) 0% found this document useful120. climaxes & denouements: quickie with lila: two lost-love poems 0% found this document usefulYA Books Podcast - Episode 17 0% found this document usefulThe Podcast - S2, Ep5: Regency women of color finding romance, making history 0% found this document usefulSchnurrbart 0% found this document usefulEp 20: The Tunnel 0% found this document useful55. Apples, poetry, Andy Goldsworthy and nature-inspired STEM inside our Four Seasons Music and More Curriculum. 0% found this document usefulThe Things We Dare Not Tell by Henry Lawson 0% found this document useful
Related articles
Cherie Jones Writing MagazineArticle
Cherie Jones
Jan 7, 2021
3 min readAkwaeke Emezi Time Magazine International EditionArticle
Akwaeke Emezi
May 28, 2021
6 min readHow I Accidentally Became A Stock Photo Model You South AfricaArticle
How I Accidentally Became A Stock Photo Model
Apr 9, 2021
9 min readWriting About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy Literary HubArticle
Writing About Infertility in a World that Sees Childless Marriage as Tragedy
Aug 23, 2017
5 min readChronicles From The Land Of The Happiest People On Earth Review – Nigeria Unmasked The GuardianArticle
Chronicles From The Land Of The Happiest People On Earth Review – Nigeria Unmasked
Oct 14, 2021
Wole Soyinka won the Nobel prize for literature in 1986, the first black person to win the award. He is perhaps the most versatile of African writers, equally at home in all genres; his dramatic masterpieces, such as Kongi’s Harvest and Death and the
3 min readCaleb Azumah Nelson: “The Confrontation With Myself Enabled Me To Find A Brief Freedom.” Guernica MagazineArticle
Caleb Azumah Nelson: “The Confrontation With Myself Enabled Me To Find A Brief Freedom.”
Apr 23, 2021
13 min readChimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read Literary HubArticle
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie on How to Write and How to Read
Sep 15, 2017
7 min readThe Sex Lives Of African Women DIVAArticle
The Sex Lives Of African Women
Oct 1, 2021
3 min readLove Triumphs Over Death In 'The Death Of Vivek Oji' NPRArticle
Love Triumphs Over Death In 'The Death Of Vivek Oji'
Aug 4, 2020
3 min readReading Women on Books That Reckon with Beauty Privilege Literary HubArticle
Reading Women on Books That Reckon with Beauty Privilege
Oct 7, 2020
3 min readWole Soyinka's Long-awaited Third Novel Isn't His Best Work NPRArticle
Wole Soyinka's Long-awaited Third Novel Isn't His Best Work
Oct 2, 2021
3 min readChimamanda Ngozi Adichie TIMEArticle
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Mar 4, 2017
The Nigerian author of the best seller Americanah is out with a new book, Dear Ijeawele, or A Feminist Manifesto in Fifteen Suggestions
2 min readPam Ayres: ‘I Inherited A Love Of English From My Mother’ The GuardianArticle
Pam Ayres: ‘I Inherited A Love Of English From My Mother’
Aug 5, 2023
It’s important to be yourself in life. Don’t think you have to adapt according to the people or situation you’re in. It’s perfectly all right to be exactly who you are, to like what you like. That’s a lesson it took me a long time to learn. I grew up
3 min readLinton Kwesi Johnson The Big IssueArticle
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Apr 10, 2023
5 min readEdge Walker Metro NZArticle
Edge Walker
Feb 20, 2019
19 min read‘My Mum Can’t Recall Who I Am, But She Can Still Read To Us So Well’ Woman's WeeklyArticle
‘My Mum Can’t Recall Who I Am, But She Can Still Read To Us So Well’
Sep 9, 2020
2 min readJoseph Coelho The Importance Of Poetry To Me ScoopArticle
Joseph Coelho The Importance Of Poetry To Me
Oct 9, 2019
2 min readPoetry Rx: Mother’s Day Edition The Paris ReviewArticle
Poetry Rx: Mother’s Day Edition
May 9, 2019
8 min readThe Portrait The Threepenny ReviewArticle
The Portrait
Mar 1, 2018
I WAS BORN almost completely deaf, and by the time I was seven I had already become a prisoner to my education. In the morning, I had speech therapy and tutoring with Mr. Bishop. We sat at my family’s long dining-room table, which was always covered
9 min readMeet Aseel Tayah Lunch Lady MagazineArticle
Meet Aseel Tayah
Dec 2, 2021
8 min readSubscribers’ News Writing MagazineArticle
Subscribers’ News
Feb 1, 2024
6 min readLike Coming Home Poets & WritersArticle
Like Coming Home
Dec 15, 2021
3 min readTeaching Poetry in Prison Literary HubArticle
Teaching Poetry in Prison
Feb 16, 2018
7 min readYellow Summer Rain Guernica MagazineArticle
Yellow Summer Rain
May 19, 2022
23 min readLong Story Short frankie MagazineArticle
Long Story Short
Jun 4, 2023
2 min readPoetry From Honduras’ Our Little Roses Home for Girls Literary HubArticle
Poetry From Honduras’ Our Little Roses Home for Girls
Oct 23, 2017
5 min readThe Case For More Poetry In Schools Ink PelletArticle
The Case For More Poetry In Schools
Apr 26, 2021
2 min readMy Friend Juniper Guernica MagazineArticle
My Friend Juniper
Apr 5, 2023
24 min readFinding Your Audiobook Voice The AtlanticArticle
Finding Your Audiobook Voice
Jun 5, 2017
7 min readLiza Lou Tatler Hong KongArticle
Liza Lou
Nov 4, 2019
1 min read
Reviews for A Lesson in Englishness
Rating: 0 out of 5 stars
0 ratings
0 ratings0 reviews