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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...
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.
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...
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...
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...