Africa: If You Believe You Are a Citizen of the World...

6 November 2019
opinion

What's remarkable today is not that identities are becoming more fluid and borderless, but that they ever became fixed and bordered.

As a member of an ethnic minority in the UK, I'm frequently asked: "Where are you from?" It's a question I've been asked so many times that I often wish I had a quick and simple answer. In fact, sometimes I consider just saying "China" to save time. But I know that would be dishonest, and so I find myself telling the same story again and again.

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