Episode 46 - Musical - and other - Truth(s) with Jeffrey Boakye
About this episode
The episode features an interview with Jeffrey Boakye discussing his works and the importance of diversity in children's literature.
We talked to Jeffrey Boakye and tried very hard to stay on the topic of children's books (and mostly succeeded). We talked about his middle grade series which starts with Kofi and the Rap Battle Summer, his books on music - Musical Truth and Musical World and what he is currently working on. We detoured into what everyone got up to in the 80s and 90s when there were only four TV channels and no mobile phones and then came back to children's books and why the diversity of both authors and main...
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