Reflection Sessions | Ｗānanga

Hi everyone! Welcome to another post, this year for wānanga we are going to be doing reflection sessions, where we have to summarise a text that we have read or watch throughout our week, we then had to choose some critical literacy questions about that particular text that we have summarised. This week I chose to summarise a book we have started reading in English.

Title: Children of Blood and Bones

This was a book that was written by a Nigerian-American novelist about some myths from her country. it is about a girl who lives in a world that was once bustling with magic, but something happens that takes the magic away. So she goes on a mission to bring magic back with the help of her family and a princess. 

Written by: Tomi Adeyemi

Text Purpose: She wanted to present a story where it would feature African-Americans and show how she wanted to respond to police brutality. 

What views of the world is the text representing?

In the book Children of Blood and Bone, they talked about how there was a war between two races where one race believed that the other did not belong in their land because of the difference between them. This is where war was initiated by the king, mainly because they want to rid of a threat to their kingdom, the maji, which were people who were gifted with magic. During this war or what they call the 'Raid', many innocent lives were lost and maji's lost their magic and their culture. A prospect of the world that this represents is the police brutality to African-Americans and how their culture and language were taken away from them. I am mainly mentioning the transatlantic slave trade and how west Africans were taken away from their homes to be treated like slaves in another country where they were downgraded and criticized. In that time they were taken away from their home, they had nothing at this point, their home, culture and language were taken away from them and they couldn't do anything about it, because they were slaves. Both of these are similar because of how people of other lands were treated harshly due to what they look like and how they live.