• Target Keystage(s): Key Stage 3, Key Stage 4,
• Curriculum Subject(s): Citizenship, English, History, PSHE: personal wellbeing,
• Who Do We Think We Are Theme(s): Britishness, national identity/values & 2012 Games, History/Settlement, Relationships, belonging and faith,

Above: Press coverage of Martin Luther King Jr's assasination in 1968.

Set during the black civil rights movement, the novel - 'Silhouettes of a Treasured Heritage'  -examines what shaped the thinking of the leaders and followers of the movement. It also looks closely at multicultural Britain of the mid-fifties and seventies.

This book looks at the history and cultural heritage of African people through the eyes of a girl of mixed heritage, while the geographic scope of the book demonstrates the range of the African diaspora.

The heroine of the text - Miranda - is the half-British, half-Ghanaian daughter of a Scottish naval merchant and a member of the Ashantihene royal family. Raised as a white girl in England and Scotland, she later travels to Ghana to discover her heritage. The heroine acts as a bridge between the two cultures, conveying to her white culture what lies at the heart of her proud and ancient African heritage. The black people the heroine encounters all have different experiences of their African Heritage.

This novel - available from the publishers and from bookstores, priced at £8.95 (UK Sterling) - is listed in the QCA's bibliography of teaching and learning resources to support multicultural education - 'Multi Ethnic Histories: A Bibliography for Teaching and Learning at Key Stages 2 and 3' (April 2007, Ref: QCA/07/2299).

Title: Silhouettes of a Treasured Heritage 
Author: Stella Osammor
Publisher: Delta-Maria Publishing House, 2004 (Email: delta.maria@btinternet.com)
Educational level: Key Stage 3
ISBN: 1-904-21304-9
206 pages, £8.85

For further information about how this resource can be used to support citizenship studies at Key Stages 3-4, please select the following link (below) to download the accompanying Guidance Notes, written by the author - Stella Osammor.

DISCLAIMER
The views and opinions expressed in the Guidance Notes (attached below) are the writer's own and do not represent the views of either the Who Do We Think We Are (WDWTWA) consortium of partners (Royal Geographical Society with IBG, the Historical Association and Citizenship Consultant Paula Kitching) or the project's funding body, the Department for Children, Schools and Families (DCSF).

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