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Sam McClenney
Mr. Arnold
Global Connections
tale of change in Africa that occurs over her lifetime. This change
(435). Baena say’s that children like Bobo will have a unique
years when she is in school. At that time schools were divided up into
schools. However this all changes when the war is over. After the war
ends, the schools become integrated and Bobo is faced with a tough
are angry sunburnt red”(9). While on the surface this is only a minor
their schools and leaving the idea of race based schools. However this
like Bobo. They are no longer in classes with only white students and
are now forced into unknown waters where they are outnumbered
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realize just how different she truly is and has her questioning her
identity as a White-African.
an “A” school, for white children only. This means we have over one
and half the athletics track is turned into a soccer pitch. Basketball and
soccer are things white children do not do”(139). Here the reader see’s
that independence alone caused a big change at this school. Like the
school she attended as a kid, this school loses it’s ability to be white
only and adapts by changing the athletics fields so that black kids can
Guard dogs are also a necessity for these types of family’s during this
time. The most extreme change though is the effect that the
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revolutions have on weapons. Bobo talks about how her mother carries
around an Uzi and her dad goes on patrols with other men like him.
through force. What’s interesting is how this affects Bobo. She says,
“Vanessa and I, like all kids over the age of five in our valley, have to
learn how to load an FN rifle magazine, strip and clean all the guns in
the house and ultimately, shoot-to-kill. If we are attacked and Mum and
Dad are injured or killed, Vanessa and will have to know how to defend
normal to be learning how to load and fire guns, because society has
trend that appears is that it can’t help but change towards a more
globalization is that certain people will not want this change to occur
this article”(14). While people will put in the effort to stop globalization,
changes says a lot about how huge they are to African society. From
the identity crisis she get’s from integrated schools, to the odd
normalcy she has with holding and fixing guns, one has to agree that
Works Cited
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Colonial Childhood
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