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Part I (Pages 1 - 72)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Mbue, Imbolo. How Beautiful We Were. Random House, New York, 2021.

• This book was written in the past tense and from a range of first-and-third person perspectives that will be noted in each section. Chapters are titled, except for the first one, according to who the narrator is.

• The first, untitled, chapter is written from the first-person plural perspective, and in the past tense. The narrators are the children of Kosawa.

• Kosawans have long felt helpless to stem the tide of negative effects of having a huge American oil corporation called Pexton drilling on its lands.

• Kosawans have had many children die and get seriously ill due to the pollution Pexton has caused.

• The village leader, Woja Beki, was viewed as colluding with Pexton and with the unnamed nation's government, who allowed...

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