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Personal stories from immigrants about their experiences, struggles, successes, and how they’ve adjusted to new cultures. These could be short written pieces, or you could adapt interviews into text.

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The Tangled Web of Trade Wars​

The whole U.S.-China tariff drama has been on the timeline long enough to earn its own hashtag. If it hasn’t already. The headlines are relentless, and everyone seems to have a theory.​ Some say China

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Same Skin, Different Stories

After reflecting on how shared pain connects us and how even “going home” can be complicated for people in the diaspora, I thought I had closed that chapter. But it turns out this conversation keeps

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The ‘Oyibo’ Complex

A few days ago, someone described a video they had seen, and it got me thinking. Actually, it did more than that… something in my chest tightened. In the clip, a young black boy is

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A reflection on identity, separation, and the healing power of home.
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We’re All Carrying the Wound.

You know… I recently watched an interview with Dr. Arikana Chihombori-Quao, the former African Union ambassador to the United States. And honestly, I felt every word she said, especially when she spoke about people of

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They Came to Build, But Not With Us?

At first glance, it sounds like a beautiful story. A woman born in the U.S. with Ghanaian roots decides to reconnect with the land of her ancestry. She buys a vast plot of land in

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The Munich Attack and the AfD Surge.

A friend and I were talking about how things feel different lately. Maybe it’s just that I’ve been in Germany for a few years now, so I’m noticing more. Or maybe… I don’t know. But

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What Happened to 40 Acres and a Mule?

It started with Kendrick Lamar. I was watching clips from his Super Bowl performance, just vibing … stepping to the song “Not Like Us.” Thing is, I’d heard this song before… oh yeah, my teenage

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A Painful Reality: African vs. African

I was scrolling through the aftermath of Elon Musk vs. Julius Malema on Twitter (now X), watching how people from all sides were reacting. And then I saw something that made me pause(again). A group

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“But Africans Sold Africans Too”

It started with someone defending Britain’s role in the abolition of slavery, talking about how they “paid a high price” to free enslaved people (yes, we’ve covered that irony already). And then, as expected, someone

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