Storytellin’ by the light of the lantern: A polyvocal dialogue turnin’ towards critical Black curriculum studies

Abstract

Once we were walking down a road and we saw a little Ghanaian boy. He was running and happy in the happy sunshine. My husband made a comment springing from an argument we had had the night before that lasted until four in the morning... He said, “Now look, see that little boy. That is a perfect picture of happy youth. So if you were writing a poem about him, why couldn’t you just let it go at that?” ...