May 10, 2019

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Me standing at the edge of the Sahara in Morocco 11 years ago. I still have a blog up called Afriquiescence: Yielding to Africa. This picture is from the post titled, “From Merzouga to Marrakesh in Technicolor.” You can almost picture my future nappy dreads — which started forming soon after entering Ghana from Burkina Faso.

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