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The main story was written by New York City-based senior writer Lance Morrow, for whom Africa has been a longtime passion. Morrow has made two trips there: in 1986, to write a cover story on African animals, and in 1988, to explore on foot the Mathews Range of northern...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: From The Publisher: Sep. 7, 1992 | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Every black American who journeys to Africa seeks an answer to that question -- and I was no different during the 2 1/2 years I spent as a Time correspondent on the continent I think of as the motherland.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In African-American Eyes | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Lacking detailed knowledge of precisely where our ancestors came from, whether they were Fon or Ashanti or Serer, African Americans have tried to adopt the continent as a whole as a place of origin. But that indiscriminate embrace poses problems of its own: Which of the hundreds of languages and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In African-American Eyes | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Nonetheless, I would argue that these are for the most part superficial expressions of solidarity with Africa. They have as much -- or more -- to do with our search for identity in the U.S. as they do with our connection to that distant continent. An African American is, after all, an...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In African-American Eyes | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

Until quite recently, we have tended to explain away tyranny perpetrated by blacks against blacks across the continent, attributing it -- sometimes correctly -- to manipulation by former colonial powers or by Washington. Genocidal ethnic conflicts such as the vicious clan warfare now taking place in Somalia go largely ignored. Conversely, black...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In African-American Eyes | 9/7/1992 | See Source »

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