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Black History Month essay: I searched a continent a world away, hoping to find ‘home’ 1619 Slavery

Black History Month essay: I searched a continent a world away, hoping to find ‘home’

"Where is home?" the author Sulaiman Addonia says, is a question he finds overrated. Home for him is not a physical place, it’s a feeling one can discover in a lover’s eyes or even a song. Addonia’s beautiful, sensual novel “Silence is My Mother Tongue” is somewhat autobiographical; he was born in Eritrea, raised in a Sudanese refugee camp and spent his teenage years in Saudi…
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February 1, 2020