Lat’s ‘Town Boy’ has the answer

To break out of a singular perspective of things, and for all Malaysian kids to learn Bahasa Melayu, the black-and-white pages of the autobiographical comic offers a simple solution.

MY daughter was talking about how hard it is to teach Bahasa Melayu to her non-Malay international school students when I found my eye caught by a book on the living room bookshelves: Lat’s Town Boy, published almost half a century ago.