The recent resurgence of extreme-right movements and the nationalist turn many governments across world have reignited relevance discussions within educational philosophy about teaching national identity in schools. However, conceptualisation previous iterations these debates been largely Western Eurocentric, making past theoretical literature questions less relevant for post-colonial settings....

V.S Naipaul is acknowledged as one of the most talented writers dealing with postcolonial themes for his fictions. As a Nobel Prize winner author, he has written number fictions such A House Mr Biswas (1961), Bend in River (1979), Miguel Street (1959), An Area Darkness (1964), In Free State (1971), The Mimic Men (1967), India: Million Mutinies Now (1990) and so on. article presents review thoro...

Lynette Jackson’s book is an excellent addition to the growing number of publications on the history of psychiatry in colonial Africa. Other books have dealt with the contribution of colonial psychiatrists to psychiatric theories (McCulloch, 1995), the history of asylums in south-west Nigeria (Sadowsky, 1999) and how race and culture acted as markers of difference in colonial asylums (Vaughn, 1...