New African, February 1st, 2000
Ursula Yatima Troche writes about how African/black and other radical students who challenge the accepted educational order in British universities are marked down by their lecturers.
"Some people even end up getting mad here!", said a student of the University of London's highly-regarded School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), where I studied.
Both of us were ambitious students, eager to learn about Africa. She was in the history department and I was in the politics department. But instead of the history and politics of Africa we yearned for, we learned the history and politics of co...
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