Abstract:This essay uses Dionne Brand’s In Another Place, Not Here and Erna Brodber’s Myal to discuss the approaches I used in teaching black diasporic literature in two Kenyan universities. It argues that the best approaches are those that encourage students to use higher-order learning processes spontaneously and create an appropriate teaching environment suited to the region’s historical, geographical, and cultural context vis-à-vis black diasporic cultural, historical, geographical, and literary backgrounds for stu… Show more
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