Dec 14, 2018
‘I felt like an impostor’: a mixed-race American in Africa
‘I felt like an impostor’: a mixed-race American in Africa
Every time I crossed the courtyard, walked past the well in the corner and slipped out of the baby blue gate nestled into the high brick wall that surrounded my Chadian host family’s house, I instantly became nasara. It’s a Ngambay word that means both “foreigner” and “white person” at the same time. A little pack of children would follow me down the red-dirt street, chanting “nah-sa-rah,…
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