Join A Passage to Africa
A self-paced one-week pre-recorded class for students reading A Passage to Africa.
£7
Printable resources
Worksheets and activity sheets to print for every lesson.
Video lessons
Pre-recorded lessons to watch whenever suits — as many times as you like.
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The book we’re reading
While reporting for the BBC on the war and famine in Somalia in the early 1990s, journalist George Alagiah travels to Gufgaduud, a remote village untouched by aid, in search of images shocking enough to move viewers back home. Amid scenes of terrible suffering, one moment changes him: a starving man gives him a faint, apologetic smile. That single smile unsettles Alagiah, upends the usual distance between reporter and subject, and forces him to confront his own role and the gulf between the comfortable world and the one he's filming. It's a reflective, unflinching memoir about empathy, dignity and the ethics of storytelling.
Class contents
Discussion of the author's biography and background
Discussion of the extract
Retrieval of quotes
Applying the quotes
