So true! I would find myself getting defensive for things I would never defend in reality.

Aug 11, 2017

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Being away, it is easy to defend the continent. It is easy, when irritated at an ignorant remark made to me by a westerner, or completely frustrated by the consistent and colossal failure of the American college dining hall to season its fish fillets, to proclaim with passionate fervor that I will return home. Even more insidiously, it is easy to assume the role of expert when thinking through issues that are unfolding at home and to forget that I am firstly young, secondly a student, and thirdly, far away from the implications of any of the political, economic and social happenings that have me fired up.

Dear African Abroad: Home is NOT Waiting For You

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So true! I would find myself getting defensive for things I would never defend in reality. But I would, just because I believe that others were making false judgments. How could they possibly know?

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