After a successful COIL dedicated to the exploration of colonial and postcolonial literary works that UKF organised in autumn 2023, I decided to try out a shortened version of the course with our external students this semester.

The course focused on one representative poem from each Rudyard Kipling and Louise Bennet, particularly "The Overland Mail" and "Colonisation in Reverse". After analysing the poems, the students made posters focused on portraying both the positive and negative effects of colonisation, decolonisation, and reverse coloniasation on white and native peoples alike.