Articles tagged with: Africa
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. Novelist Chimamanda Adichie tells the story of how she found her authentic cultural voice — and warns that if we hear only a single story about another person or country, we risk a critical misunderstanding.
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Full Text of Barack Obama, President of the USA in Ghana :: Al-Jazeera English
Obama in Ghana: War a ‘millstone around Africa’s neck’ :: CNN.com
Why Africa Depends on Handouts : A contradictory message from Obama :: Al-Jazeera English
Barack Obama tells Africa to stop blaming colonialism for problems :: London Telegraph
Obama in Africa: A Major Disappointment :: The Nation
More than 5,000 Africans text message Obama :: Alternet, from Agence France Presse
Third culture. To me, the phrase conjures up images of mould growing in Petrie dishes. The third generation of such a mould, perhaps, carefully reared in a sterile laboratory environment. Someone once told me that the phrase third culture referred to children such as myself. Children of twentieth century migrants, children who belonged neither to the culture of their parents, nor the culture of their host land. People like myself who created a new, hybrid third culture, a marriage of the heritage of our parents with the culture of our adopted homeland. But what happens when you have not one adopted homeland but two or three?
