Introduction: Roger Casement's Life (I)

This teaching unit was designed by Léa Gbeassor.

Roger Casement was a multi-facetted person. This is in part due to the fact that his life was lived in a tense, turbulent time, when European colonialism and the exploitation and violence directed against the colony’s inhabitants were at their peak.

This teaching unit thus aims at transmitting a basic understanding of who Roger Casement was, what he did and what the historical context surrounding his life was. The focus will be on providing factual evidence on Casement’s life and his historical context, but the unit also wants to create an awareness in students that those representations of him can never be completely factual.