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Growing Up African in Australia: racism, resilience and the right to belong

  • Written by Kathomi Gatwiri, Lecturer, Southern Cross University

Review: Growing Up African in Australia, edited by Maxine Beneba Clarke, Magan Magan and Ahmed Yussuf


For many African-diaspora people in Australia, belonging means masking yourself. To fit in is to curate one’s Africanness and one’s blackness. You teach yourself to see-saw between the splitting identities of who Australia needs you to...

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