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Life in United States lacks the spontaneity of Kenya

By the summer of 2005, my work in Mississippi, in the Deep South was over. Dissertation written and successfully defended, it was time to leave. It was time for a change.

The South was a difficult place to live with questions like “Are you going back home” repeated every day. I felt a stranger where I should have felt most at home. After all, Mississippi is the “blackest” of all the USA states.

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