The Kenyan film Rafiki was released in the UK this month, and three of our students (Ben Apea, Aysha Taylor, and Molly West) recently interviewed director Wanuri Kahiu for the Africa in Words blog. Rafiki was banned by the Kenyan Film Classification Board for (in the words of its chief executive) “its clear intent to promote lesbianism” – then unbanned for seven days, then banned again. Ben, Aysha, and Molly are taking the module African Narratives, run by my colleague Dr Kate Wallis, and the interview was one of their assessments on the module – good job folks!

Hello All!

Teaching came to an end last Friday and everyone is satisfied a good term’s work has been completed. We will be blogging a little less regularly over the coming months and this post is a chance to pay tribute to some of our first year’s budding photographers…

I set my first-year seminar groups a competition to take a photograph of their favourite thing on campus: it could be a view, a tree, a seat in the library, anything they wanted really. Here are the winners:

FIRST PRIZE: Harry Whattoff (BA English)

JOINT SECOND PLACE: Kate Debling (BA English) and Name Withheld

Some very impressive efforts – well done all!

Many thanks to everyone who came along to an Offer-Holder Visit Day over the last two months, we hope you enjoyed your time on campus and learnt more about our degree programmes in the Department of English & Film. You can still ask us questions about English at Exeter, we’d be happy to help!