Author: Laura Kaboi
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I was once asked an interesting question by a French teacher in secondary school and it changed my worldview forever. My French teacher asked the class: “How many races are there in the world?” I had never been asked this question before and, by the looks of it, no one in the class had either.…
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There are so many beautiful things in this world. Some people find beauty in a late evening sunset, the bright blue of a tropical ocean, or even a star-filled sky on a clear night. I have personally always found beauty in the gathering of people from different ethnicities, cultures and backgrounds. Throughout my childhood, I…
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Let us take minute to rewind. This is only my second week into blogging about culture and identity, and last week we witnessed the unnecessary death of George Floyd – a black American citizen who was murdered by a white policeman in Minneapolis. I won’t describe the awful details of the video that captures the…
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“Where are you from Laura?” “Which country do you feel you belong to?” “Do you miss your country at all?”. Being from a mixed-ethnic background I often get asked these questions. It’s impossible to explain in such detail what I have been trying to work out for many years. I have always struggled to give…
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Kingdom Citizen 