To Sir With Love by E. R. Braithwaite AsiaIn 1945, Rick Braithwaite, a smart, highly educated ex RAF pilot, looks for a job in British engineering. He is deeply shocked to realise that, as a black man from British Guiana, no one will employ him because of the colour of his skin. In desperation he turns to teaching, taking a job in a tough East End school, and left to govern a class of unruly teenagers. With no experience or guidance, Braithwaite attempts to instill discipline, confound
rather than history and law
Written as a letter from a Zimbabwean mother to her daughter
but drove home the bitter realities of racism to a mainstream white liberal audience' Observer
from her family to the quixotic
'Certainly his best book since What is the What
The book includes illustrative photographs by local visual artists
Why is lube so important
Jack Mapanje
Quayson takes issue with the prevalent use of oral tradition in the criticism of Europhone written literature as a kind of cultural matrix out of which the written text emerged
'The game birds and waterfowl of South Africa'
Get your boobs done/Get your taxes done
She recounts the instances where big tobacco itself was caught redhanded and explores not only why a listed company would want to smuggle its own product
