Assignment on God's Bits of Wood: N'Deye Touti and Education

(NOTE: There are several different editions of God's Bits of Wood in circulation -- even several different printings by the publisher Heinemann -- each with slightly different page numbers. These are from the latest printing, 1999; your edition might be slightly different).

Please read the following passages:

• pp. 57-58 -- "N'Deye, as everyone called her... could teach her nothing," in the chapter "DAKAR. Houdia M'Baye."
• p. 111 -- "It was N'Deye... at the school," in the chapter: "DAKAR. Mame Sofi"
• p. 116 -- "After the four men ... tidy courtyards," in the same chapter.
• p. 116 -- "N'Deye Touti... of bamboo stalks," in the same chapter.

Spend extra time on the first passage. It is long, and repays a very close reading -- analysis. We will spend time on it in class, too.

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Written Assignment: Write 350 words on "N'Deye Touti and Education -- Imperialist Education."

DO NOT SUMMARIZE the passages, but discuss and analyze them.

E-mail your discussion to your group and to me (so everyone can read it before class).