Author: Delia Jarrett-Macauley

Publication date: 2005
Publisher: Granta Books (2005)
ISBN: 186207741X

When Julia flies into war-scarred Sierra Leone from London, she is apprehensive about seeing her uncle Moses for the first time in twenty years. But nothing could have prepared her for her encounter with her eight-year-old cousin, Citizen, a former child soldier, and for the shocking truth of what he has done.

Driven by a desire to understand Citizen, Julia takes the disturbed child into the rainforest, where to her surprise, she encounters him amongst other child soldiers, along with a mysterious storyteller, Bemba G. Is he a shaman, teacher, wizard or magician? He alone in the heart of the rainforest can heal the rift between the cultures of war and peace, Europe and Africa. But who would think he’d use Shakespeare to do it?

‘Moses, Citizen & Me’ is a work of imagination about the conflict in Sierra Leone; a novel which draws on both the European canon and African oral traditions to illuminate the sufferings of child soldiers and their families.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Routledge
Publication date ‏ : ‎ 7 Dec. 1995
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0415116481

Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing Feminism was the first British feminist anthology to examine concepts of womanhood and feminism within the context of ‘race’ and ethnicity. Challenging contemporary feminist theory, the book highlights ways in which constructions of womanhood have traditionally excluded black women’s experience, and proposes a reconsideration of terms such as ‘feminist’.

The research subjects and methods of many of the contributors have been shaped by the specifics of the Black British experience and context. New information is presented, old ideologies re-examined, and previously concealed ideologies are revealed. This collection brings together various ideas about ‘difference’ and identity. It covers a wide range of social and cultural issues including the position of black women in the church, lesbian identity in film, contemporary African feminism, and British immigration law.