Checkin Out Me History

• Who wrote Checking Out Me History?

  John Agard
• Repetition of 'dem tell me'


  Highlights how they are taught the victors history not their own, links to colonialism
• Use of many illusions


  Emphasises how many people they could be learning about who are just if not more important but still aren't.
• 'Blind me to me own identity' 


  Eurocentric - they are trying to teach them to think like they do.
• 'I carving out me identity'


  Plural vs singular, a revolution fighting the lies of the colonisers. Colloquial language
• Allusions to white history

  Shows the local vs white history and which one they are trying to teach as the truth.
• 'Freedom river' 


  Metaphor referencing the freedom from slavery