Sublime

Is there any tribe more

mbeles

I’d taken my time correcting him because I wasn’t sure what I meant to myself. ‘Mixed-race’ people don’t technically belong to either of their heritage spaces, but they don’t necessarily belong in a ‘mixed-race’ space either – there’s too much flex in the term. I used to think every mixed-race person was an island, composed of a population of one.

Women, always the women. Thank goodness for the women.

The grab bag of my identity served me well in Abuja. This had always been the case, ever since childhood, except for one critical aspect of my background, the weight of which I would not appreciate until I was older: being of both Indian and Pakistani heritage.