The Education of a British-Protected Child

The pieces here span reflections on personal and collective identity, on home and family, on literature, language and politics, and on Achebe's lifelong attempt to reclaim the definition of 'Africa' for its own authorship. For the first thirty years of his life, before Nigeria's independence in 1960, Achebe was officially defined as a 'British Protected Person'. In The Education of a British-Protected Child he gives us a vivid, ironic and delicately nuanced portrait of growing up in colonial Nigeria and inhabiting its 'middle ground', interrogating both his happy memories of reading English adventure stories in secondary school and also the harsher truths of colonial rule.

The Education of a British-Protected Child features in the following genres: Memoirs, Autobiography: writers

The Education of a British-Protected Child is available in Paperback

The Education of a British-Protected Child was written by Chinua Achebe and published by Penguin Classics an imprint of Penguin Books Ltd

The Education of a British-Protected Child has 192 pages

Yes it is part of Modern Classics series

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