Book Review - 'The Education of a British-Protected Child - Essays,' by Chinua Achebe -... - 0 views
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“The Education of a British-Protected Child”
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the “strongly multiethnic, multilingual, multireligious, somewhat chaotic” situation he was born into as a colonial subject whose first passport described him as a “British Protected Person.” As the 16 essays in this collection reveal, the “education” Achebe and his fellow Nigerians received from their exploitative and racist self-proclaimed protectors “would not be a model of perfection.”
