In this section of reading an obvious cultural difference, finally became obvious to me. In previous posts I had talked about how the Nigerian government is corrupt and different from many developed countries, and used the U.S. as an example. Beverly Naidoo does a good job of showing this, except uses England's government as an example.
In Nigeria the children had especially feared the Nigerian government, due to their father's involvement in writing the magazine that condemned the actions of the Nigerian government. As a result their mother was murdered, and they had to flee the country.
After arriving in the England, the couple that had smuggled the children into London abandoned the children and the children had to then turn to the English government for help. Unlike the Nigerian government, the children were taken care, which included setting them up with a foster home and enrolling them in school, which also showed England's superior education system.
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