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she decided that she wanted to do
something to change how Jamaicans
felt and thought about this wonderful
language. After all, language is an
important part of culture and how a
person comes to identify themselves.
Miss Lou continued to encourage
her students to learn about Jamaican
culture and to use Patois, especially perform monologues. These weren't
when writing. While still teaching at just regular monologues, though;
the University, Miss Lou continued they were all done in Patois! In
to write and in 1965, she produced a addition to the monologues, she
radio show called Miss Lou's Views. would recite poems she wrote, stories
On this program, Miss Lou would and little skits. This was the first
