one consequences a superior education, see. independent, hundred-per-c — Petina Gappah, Book Memory

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This is one of the consequences of a superior education, you see. In this independent, hundred-per-cent-empowered and fully and totally indigenous blacker-than-black country, a superior education is one that the whites would value, and as whites do not value local languages at the altar of what the whites deem supreme. So it was in colonial times, and so it remains, more than thirty years later.

Petina Gappah, The Book of Memory

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