This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from West Africa: Camara Laye's The Dark Child, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and Miriama Ba's So Long a Letter. The background and critical material is integrated into well-developed lesson plans which include reproducible student handouts, teacher resources and reading resources.
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This curriculum guide provides anthropological and historical research as well as literary criticism on five narratives from West Africa: Camara Laye's The Dark Child, Chinua Achebe's Things Fall Apart, Ama Ata Aidoo's The Dilemma of a Ghost, Ousmane Sembene's God's Bits of Wood and Miriama Ba's So Long a Letter. The background and critical material is integrated into well-developed lesson plans which include reproducible student handouts, teacher resources and reading resources.