But both of these ideas were turned on their head and reasserted when I realized I was no longer seen as Black and learned more about “coloured” culture. I was excited to live in a space that belonged to Black people and to understand my Blackness in a new place. It also became an opportunity to live, breathe, and think on the continent, a true gift and privilege to Black diasporans. I picked the country as a place of study because of what I thought were resounding similarities between conversations around race and oppression there and the United States. I am a Black student and writer who moved to South Africa to do my second masters degree in media and communication. I get asked this question on fairly regular basis in Cape Town, and it’s no longer a jarring one.
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