Copyright

Lydia Namatende Sakwa

Published On

2023-05-11

Page Range

pp. 183–190

Language

  • English

Print Length

8 pages

18. Wiping the Smudge off the Window

The Darkest Time as a Student in Europe

  • Lydia Namatende-Sakwa (author)
Chapter of: Migrant Academics’ Narratives of Precarity and Resilience in Europe (pp. 183–190)

In this narrative, the author shares her painful journey, having left a young family—husband, and children (two and a half months, four, and two years old), to pursue a PhD in the UK. Her encounters with racism interweaved with feelings of guilt for leaving her family paint a picture of precariousness informed by identity markers of race, sex and class.

Contributors

Lydia Namatende-Sakwa

(author)
Senior Lecturer and Coordinator Postgraduate Programs at Kyambogo University