“My hair’s gone right back to Africa.”
An old friend told me this saying when I was in junior high. She was letting me in, of course, on what some black women say when their straightened hair reverts “back” to curls or afro in wet or humid weather (a common problem in my part of the [...]
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Posted in Adoption, Africa, Jackie Kay, adoptees, black Canadian adoptee, diaspora, identity on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
