Three Children's Critical Perspectives on Aspects of the Contemporary East African Social 'Web of Relationships': Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them
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Abstract
This paper will take Hannah Arendt's concept of subjective in-between outlined in The Human Condition (1958) as a starting point for an analysis of the social disruption experienced by children in the three short stories of Uwem Akpan's Say You're One of Them (2008) that are located in the wider East African region – An Ex-mas Feast (Kenya), Language Is That? (Ethiopia) and My Parent's Bedroom (Rwanda). This analysis of Akpan's short stories will concentrate on how forms of intra/inter-family and inter/intra-cultural communicative exchange are affected by the violent restructuring of the social web of relationships (Arendt, Human Condition 183) emphasising the stories' potential in laying the foundation for a new 'subjective in-between'. The second part of the proposed paper will concentrate on the East African regional setting of the stories and scrutinise its relevance from an international perspective. How does the West feature in these stories of social break down? What options of social regeneration and reconciliation do the stories outline for today's youth and tomorrow's leaders?
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.004 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.026 | 0.031 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.009 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.004 | 0.008 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.004 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
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