Sublime

Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for arou

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Others targeted black Africans, who were barred from entering the cities without passes, being on the streets after certain hours, and—most significantly for Ganda—eating in restaurants. The date of this change is uncertain; it may have been a strictly local ordinance, or an old regulation being freshly enforced during one of many periodic attempts

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Melissa and Michael also planned to take their children ‘home’ one day, to both Nigeria and Jamaica, but these were expensive, complicated trips (multiple vaccinations, high flight costs out of school term times, a visit to the Nigeria High Commission in Northumberland Avenue, where you would have to wait in a hot, overcrowded basement for possibly

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