Perhaps the most famous example of “African passing” is the notorious anecdote of former UN Secretary General,Kofi Annan. A student in 1960s U.
S., Annan had traveled to the Jim Crow South. He needed a haircut, or but was told by a racist white barber: I do not reduce nigger hair.” Annan,who is Ghanaian, responded: […]
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