Take the case of Lola Olufemi. All she and her fellow Cambridge students wanted to do was introduce some new writers into their syllabus. In June 2017, they wrote an open letter to the post-colonial literature faculty, requesting that non-white authors be added to the curriculum. Four months later, after precisely zero complaints from fellow students or members of the faculty, who were considering its response, the Telegraph newspaper published Lola’s picture on its front page with the headline ‘STUDENT FORCES CAMBRIDGE TO DROP WHITE AUTHORS’.
