He is from Ghana.
For our Colonial Discourse/Postcolonial Theory course he has made us read:

Things Fall Apart (Achebe)
Arrow of God (Achebe)
2 Rudyard Kipling poems
CTBC (Paton)
and
Clear Light of Day (Desai)


It's the lamest class I've ever taken

what can you do? he used to work for the BBC

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The greatest asset they all have is themselves. And yet does anybody promote that to them? Does anybody tell them that they are the greatest asset they have? Or are they steered to idol worship? Are they moved, are they motivated, are they inspired to look at the president or any politician as their only salvation? If they are, it's just a shame.

Being from Ghana doesn't make him right. Two Achebe seems like overkill, as good as he is. And I note it's all the British Empire colonial experience. UBERTUT.
But of course I respect the BBC.

I waited so long to take the third year Postcolonial Literature course at my university, but then when I got there it was a massive let-down. The books we had to read were pretty much all amazing, but the lecturer didn't know how to lecture, and just made us read shitty readings in translation (bad translation) from all sorts of irksome pointy-head commentators. I don't think the lecturer gave a fuck at all about lecturing, and it showed. I've never quite got over that class not being the best thing ever.

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Time is the distance that you can't return by miles.

I escaped somehow. Let's go

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Well, this professor likes lecturing too much. And talks and talks and talks.
He knows literally everything.
And he wants to share it all.
He was SHOCKED SHOCKED when no one in the class knew the name of the first woman in space (????????)

He loves to share knowledge.

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The greatest asset they all have is themselves. And yet does anybody promote that to them? Does anybody tell them that they are the greatest asset they have? Or are they steered to idol worship? Are they moved, are they motivated, are they inspired to look at the president or any politician as their only salvation? If they are, it's just a shame.

I got put right off post-colonialism after two lectures on it in my Modern European Culture class last year. It might have been that the class was rushed and didn't give us time for the material to sink in properly before we were onto the next topic, but I just didn't feel it.

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I quite enjoyed Cry the Beloved Country, but I could not get along with Things Fall Apart. It just seemed to be "farm some yams, beat some women, farm some yams, beat some women". Didn't even manage to finish it even though its ridiculously short. I didn't even get as far as Things Falling Apart in it. I imagine something might have gone wrong with the yams since beating women seemed to be an endless pastime.