The importance we have placed on literacy and education in our developmental goals has helped our country move ahead of our giant neighbour, as per Nobel laureate Amartya Sen, in key social indicators of development. Literacy and education have been a tool for liberation for Bangladesh as they had been for Black people in the US; they let us express ourselves, engage in civic
MacArthur Fellow and National Book Award winning author Ta-Nehisi Coates talked about the war on books, the imbalance of power, and learning as liberation at the PEN America World Voices Festival on May 11.
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