I was out running errands after work the other day and I pulled into a parking spot. After taking care of some things inside the building, I waddled walked out to find a white van parked in the spot next to mine, on my driver’s side. I tried to open my door to get into […]
Repost from: http://www.sapeople.com/2015/04/20/nigerian-thoughts-on-phobias-xenophobia-south-africa/ My name is Lovelyn Chidinma Nwadeyi. I am a Nigerian. Born in Nigeria to two Nigerian parents. Raised in Queenstown, Eastern Cape by those same Nigerian parents right up until I completed my Bachelors at Stellenbosch. Growing up in South Africa, I was always reminded by those around me that I was different […]
You cannot sit there and begin to imagine half of what my struggle here has been, the slow and agonizing safari I found myself forced to take into the depths of my self, to realize that the box I checked to self-identify within these borders opened me up to so much hate. You cannot even […]
I had a crisis while I was living in Liberia. I was living in a lovely, air-conditioned apartment that was a few hundred feet from the American embassy, with a mzungu roommate who worked for the World Bank, and I was working on public-health-capacity-building matters. I would lounge in the spacious living room, admiring the […]
I got weave checked yesterday. I mean, a real check. If you’d seen the check, you’d have been forgiven for thinking that this woman and I were Siamese Twins joined at her right hand and at my scalp. She delved right into my hair. Hair that I had taken an hour to carefully curl before […]
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