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Divine vessel, Patriots Blood: An African daughters path & alchemy of grief (Zambia & Zimbabwe) Part 2

  Most travelers in Africa seemed primarily interested in safari thrills. As a young Australian man reflected to me in a Lusaka cafe, "So many Black people in Africa...?" It highlighted a common perspective among many white Europeans, Afrikaners, and white inhabitants of Africa, often thinking & economically empowered to believe they owned Africa. At the end of my trip, I was overwhelmed with disbelief. I had never confronted racism so bluntly in my face, but I know what rejection, disrespect, colorism, abandonment, deception, entitled behavior, feeling not valued, & narcism was as I was raised in a family, community & society as well as part of humanity that endured, server & thrieved within Monarchy, Socialism & Capitalism, as public servants & Entrepreneurs. Even among locals in the country, I often felt like an outsider, as I was an outsider to them, for being a woman with conviction, faith, & respect for my being. Hair care became a source of ...

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