#oburoni

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I’m alone. but I’m not lonely.

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Ginger Biscuit

[everbusy]

oburoni (oburo-ni)

the origin of the word oburoni, explained by dr obádélé kambon:

https://youtu.be/LTq1m3NZWPA?t=39m30s

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[whereislaura]

O is for Oburoni

In Ghana, at least for me, being a white girl felt like being famous. A lot of children have never seen, or almost never seen, a white person before and so thy are very excited to see one. “Oburoni, how are you?” is something I have heard over a million times in just 2,5 weeks. Oburoni, literally translated, means “white person”. At first I didn't quite know what to answer, except “I am fine, how are you?”. But Pat told me that it is seen as polite if you answer them “obibini”, which means “black person”! In the beginning it felt kind of strange that everyone calls you the same name, but after a few days you start to react to it as if it is your own name, and so I became “Laula the Oburoni”.

But it wasn't just the oburoni which made me feel like some sort of celebrity. Everywhere I would go, people would come to me and asked if I could  go on a picture with them, young girls would tell me they want to be like me when they grow up and teenage boys stuttered awkward “I love you’s”. The adults seemed a bit more secure about this, and I've even had several grown man propose to me. Taxi drivers, shop keepers and friends of Atta, they all wanted me to become their wife. One guy even proposed to me on the street, in front of all of the Children’s Home! And as if that wasn't crazy enough for one day, only a few minutes later a second man asked me to marry him, in front of his own children! But the thing that made me feel like a famous person most must have been when a friend of Atta asked me if I wanted to take a photo with her, and not even an hour later she had changed her What’s app profile photo to our photo!