Like the BBC’s Book at Bedtime- A short story read aloud
As part of The Seagull Project’s Great Souls: An Evening of Short Stories and Performance, Claudine Mboligikpelan Nako read Langston Hughes’ One Friday Morning. Written in 1941, it recounts the experience of disappointed hopes, due to the rising expectations, caused by the Great Migration. In many ways the experience of the high school student in the story, is a metaphor for the Great Migration.
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