Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Garden State Book Award for Teen Fiction (Grades 6-8) (1996) Keiko doesn't fit in

Keiko doesn't fit in

' a land full of wonders

Escaping the city and her Secret Service agents

the dread grows

Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History Garden State Book Award for Teen Fiction (Grades 6-8) (1996) Keiko doesn't fit inWhy did independent Singapore celebrate two hundred years of its founding as a British colony in 2019? Why did it do so with a history dating from 1299? And what are the possibilities of doing decolonial history in Singapore? Raffles Renounced: Towards a Merdeka History presents essays by historians, literary scholars and artists which grapple with these questions. The volume also reproduces some of the source material used in the play Merdeka (Wild