“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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Back to Africa
Posted in Adoption, Africa, Jackie Kay, adoptees, black Canadian adoptee, diaspora, identity on October 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Adoption Reunion Review: “The Lord in His Wisdom”
Posted in Jackie Kay, black adoptees on October 7, 2008 | 2 Comments »
“The Lord in His Wisdom” by Jackie Kay, in Granta 93: God’s Own Countries
This excellent short piece by Scottish writer Jackie Kay is an excerpt from her memoir-in-progress. Kay, a black woman who was adopted into a white family as an infant, describes meeting her birth father for the first time in Nigeria when she [...]
