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    I Am Not Your Golliwogg
    I Am Not Your Golliwogg
    I Am Not Your Golliwogg
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    I Am Not Your Golliwogg

    By Brenda Wardle

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    Nuku, a young girl from a mixed-racial background, is cast in the role of a Golliwogg at her nursery school's annual Christmas concert. Her mother, Winnie, objects and insists that she be cast in another role. The teacher then assigns her the role of a cricket bat. Nuku is still unhappy as all the other children in her class, are assigned the enchanting roles of beautiful characters. The cricket bat is sewn onto her calico dress. On the day of the concert, Nuku is mocked by the other school children as she is about to enter the stage and they chant - Golliwogg, Golliwogg, Golliwogg! She chokes up during her performance, her voice quivers, she suffers a bout of stage fright, until her sister comes to her rescue. They exit the concert hall with Nuku in tears. Later, their mother sits them down and educates them about the Golliwogg and what is has come to represent. However, this appears to have been too late as Nuku is haunted throughout her life by that one experience. And, although she has an angelic voice, she refuses to pursue a career in music as she fears public scorn and ridicule.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrenda Wardle
    Release dateSep 3, 2020
    ISBN9781005928049
    I Am Not Your Golliwogg
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    Brenda Wardle

    Brenda Wardle is a South African Doctor of Laws student. She is a prolific author - essayist and poet. Wardle has published books on high profile criminal cases including 'To Kill a Fragile Rose: The State's Case Against Oscar Leonard Carl Pistorius" to mention but a few. Her genres span poetry, children's books, fiction and non-fiction. Wardle is Chief Operations Officer at the Wardle College of Law and is a legal analyst of international repute having been interviewed on Sky News by Jeremy Thompson, BBC by Karin Giannone, Fox News by South African Correspondent, Paul Tilsey, SABC by Dumile Mateza. Between 1st January 2017 and 8th April 2017 Wardle has published 15 titles. On the 1st May 2017 she will be publishing her latest book, The Verdict: The Legal Trials and Tribulations of President Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (As Politics and the Law, Converge).https://t.co/tWXyidMl4y

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      I Am Not Your Golliwogg - Brenda Wardle

      ‘I Am Not Your Golliwogg!’

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      ‘I Am Not Your Golliwogg’

      By

      Brenda Wardle

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      Author: Brenda Wardle

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