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Is Black Really Beautiful?
- By Patricia Daboh
- Published 11/20/2007
- Life Abroad
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Nigeria and Africa in all their poverty are really just a heartbeat away from the ancestral and cultural poverty that Black America suffers. Are we allowing our Black youths to be groomed to believe that “black is not beautiful?”
Disconnected From the Motherland
- By Patricia Daboh
- Published 07/6/2007
- Life Abroad
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When I told African Americans who were my friends and co-workers, that I was engaged to my then fiancé, some of the first things they asked me is “Is he ugly, for you know those Africans are ugly?”
The Immigration Process: Bringing Your Nigerian Husband To America
- By Patricia Daboh
- Published 07/5/2007
- Life Abroad
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I want you to understand that if you have not met your Nigerian fiancé in person, DO NOT waste your time and money… you will be denied.
Rejected For Loving a Nigerian Man
- By Patricia Daboh
- Published 05/22/2007
- Life Abroad
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In marrying my Nigerian husband, I find that I, an African American woman, have taken on the entire country’s fight as well. I mean I am called on, through thoughtless remarks or questions, to defend my choice...
Nigeria is Beautiful to me
- By Patricia Daboh
- Published 05/4/2007
- Life Abroad
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When I told my relatives about my engagement to a Nigerian man, whom I had never met, who lived over 5,000 miles from me, they started telling me, in detail, many horror stories about woman flying to met men who presented themselves to be one thing and turned out to be another...
