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I know about teaching English for academic purposes (EAP) in Europe and I know about texts and feminist activism. I also know about academia and am not afraid of it. But I know little about Africa, despite having absorbed all the Rider Haggard books as a child (hardly ‘politically correct’ although gripping), spending long afternoons on the floor of my grandmother’s house with National Geographic magazines, and more recently, absorbing newspapers and novels Still, uncertainty struck when I was asked to run an EAP workshop for a group of researchers from three countries, two of which are in Africa.
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Gulden, A.T. (2013). Writing Across Cultures. In: Holmarsdottir, H.B., Nomlomo, V., Farag, A.I., Desai, Z. (eds) Gendered Voices. Comparative and International Education, vol 23. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6209-137-5_11
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