Summary of Louis Chude-Sokei's Floating In A Most Peculiar Way

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#1 My mother and father were from a country that had disappeared. The murder of our country was a crime they would never forgive because they had been partly responsible for its invention. We were not exiles because nobody owed us anything. We were immigrants because in my mother’s day, the term implied that we were needed in whatever country we ended up in.

#2 I was born in Jamaica in 1967, just after the war was declared on Biafra. I didn’t remember the war or leaving Biafra, but I did remember the first time I heard the word Biafra.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 6, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822537842

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Insights on Louis Chude-Sokei's Floating In A Most Peculiar Way

Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 7

Insights from Chapter 8

Insights from Chapter 9

Insights from Chapter 10

Insights from Chapter 11

Insights from Chapter 12

Insights from Chapter 13

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

My mother and father were from a country that had disappeared. The murder of our country was a crime they would never forgive because they had been partly responsible for its invention. We were not exiles because nobody owed us anything. We were immigrants because in my mother’s day, the term implied that we were needed in whatever country we ended up in.

#2

I was born in Jamaica in 1967, just after the war was declared on Biafra. I didn’t remember the war or leaving Biafra, but I did remember the first time I heard the word Biafra.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

I had a cousin named Cecil, who was adopted by the patriarch and matriarch of a home for left-behind children. He was famous for his ability to shimmy up lean and tall palm trees, hand over hand like a bug-eyed yellow monkey. I cornered him