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[...]whereas in Nigeria I had been an aspirant and acolyte, learning from both peers and mentors how to read anew, in Barbados I found myself an anomaly in all sorts of ways: a white African in a race-conscious Afrocentric environment; a British expatriate in an ex-colony still deeply affected by colonial habits of deference and submission; an Oxford-educated English lecturer at an institution highly conscious of its decolonizing role in education; an Africanist scholar in a place where stereotypes of African primitivism and savagery alternate with myths of royalty and ancient ties of blood.