Bye-Bye Babar by Taiye Selasi

Photograph by Marvin James at MHOSEENU in Accra, Ghana

Key Note:

On abundant belonging:

“Were you to ask any of these beautiful, brown-skinned people that basic question – ‘where are you from?’ – you’d get no single answer from a single smiling dancer. This one lives in London but was raised in Toronto and born in Accra; that one works in Lagos but grew up in Houston, Texas. ‘Home’ for this lot is many things: where their parents are from; where they go for vacation; where they went to school; where they see old friends; where they live (or live this year). Like so many African young people working and living in cities around the globe, they belong to no single geography, but feel at home in many.”

Full Essay: https://thelip.robertsharp.co.uk/2005/03/03/bye-bye-barbar/