So, this is normally the kind of question I would ask on Twitter. Hoping it will work here too!
I'm changing my #Postcolonial Lit class to have an environmental focus this year. Recs for contained/short pieces on resource extraction or objectification of nature that we can discuss on the first day? I'm thinking maybe images would work well?
@GreyElm @rebeccaoh postcolonial short writing on resource extraction? Yes I do! Pretty much all the prose we've published from Nigeria is about this:
"Rainbow Boy" by Amanda Ilozumba Otitochukwu https://reckoning.press/rainbow-boy/
"All We Have Left Is Ourselves" by Oyedotun Damilola Muees https://reckoning.press/all-we-have-left-is-ourselves/
"More Sea Than Tar" by Osahon Ize Iyamu https://reckoning.press/more-sea-than-tar/
"To the Place of Skulls" by Innocent Ilo: https://reckoning.press/to-the-place-of-skulls/
This story does not begin with my birth; neither does it end with my death, but I will tell you of it regardless for I feel it is important you know of how I left this world in a baptism of blood and oil. Before then, I will tell you what happened in 1958 in
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