Tyger Tyger

[Biko Agozino]

This 1967 BBC documentary on William Blake's poem, Tyger, was made and repeated by Stuart Hall on the Open University program while I was doing fieldwork for my doctoral thesis in London. After 26 minutes into the program, the presenter with the sonorous posh voice of African descent came on to say that he learned the poem in high school in Jamaica. I was captivated and stood to watch the rest of it, imagining that the Tyger was an implicit metaphor for imperialism. Then I wished that I could meet him. The very next morning, there he was, strolling down Kilburn Highroad in London as I went out to get the newspaper, near the apartment of my former Professor in Nigeria, Len Bloom, where I was staying. I started screaming Profffff, Proffff, as we do in Nigeria when we saw a real Professor. He asked what I was doing in London and I told him that I was researching Black Women and the Criminal Justice System. He said that it was a challenging topic and invited me to his nearby home to discuss it. In 30 minutes, he straightened my theoretical framework with his theory of Race and Class Articulation in Societies Structured in Dominance. I have never looked back. Thanks to Dr. Nick Beech, the Director of the Stuart Hall Archives at the University of Birmingham for sending me the link to the program to assist with the book I am writing on the Third Paradigm in Cultural Studies, the Africana Paradigm of Stuart Hall:

"Omnibus" Tyger Tyger TV Episode 1967 BBC

"Omnibus" Tyger Tyger TV Episode 1967 BBC

[Oluwatoyin Adepoju]

A beautiful story.

Creative accidents are strategic to research, a view from a  teacher at our SOAS research seminar may be summarized.

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