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Part I (Pages 1 - 59)

• The following version of this book was used to create this lesson plan: Onuzo, Chibundu. Sankofa. Catapult, New York, 2021.

• This book was written from the first person perspective and in the past tense.

• In Chapter 1, Anna Graham, a middle-aged mixed-race woman living in London, opened a trunk she found under her mother's bed about six months after her mother's death.

• In the trunk was a diary by a man named Francis Aggrey, who Anna's mother Bronwen Bain had had an affair with many years ago when she was a very young woman - resulting in Anna's birth.

• Anna had never known her father, as he had left London to go back to his home country of Bamana in Africa before he even knew Anna's mother was pregnant.

• As Anna began reading Francis's diary she realized he had experienced overt and consistent racist incidents as...

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