Originally posted on UAL ACS:
“It’s amazing how food can tell a story…” That’s the opening sentence of Jamie Oliver’s GHANA: JAMIE’S JOLLOF RICE RECIPE. And I ask myself “where is our story in this picture?. It’s no doubt attractive and appealing, but it certainly doesn’t link directly to sub-saharan Africa, let alone Ghana. Now, I…
Learn outside (the box of) the lecture room… I had a 9am lecture this morning with the late great Kola Dumor as I sat behind my computer and came across his TEDxEuston talk Telling the African Story: Komla Dumor at TEDxEuston on YouTube. And it just happens I will be going to Ghana for the Easter break … Continue reading
Today’s lecture on George Orwell given by Sue Dawson was in preparation for next week’s Contextual Studies seminar discussion; the significance of the journalistic methods and narrative documentary presentation used by Orwell in his autographical work Down and out in Paris and London. Continue reading
The first academic term has drawn to an end. Now is a good time for reflection so I’ve highlight some of the challenges and frustrations I faced particularly regarding writing a very thought-provoking essay on Frantz Fanon and decolonisation… This was an essay where what I read went beyond just meeting a deadline… Fanon’s words … Continue reading
the Educationally Frustrated student 