January of 2024 was my first trip to the continent of Africa, specifically Senegal. I brought three books with me, Dionne Brand's A Map to the Door of No Return: Notes to Belonging, Cheikh Anta Diop’s The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality, and of course my journal. A few question preoccupied my mind for this trip:
What does it mean to retur…
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