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How many of you have dual-citizenship?

I am of mixed heritage. My Dad's English and my Mum is Nigerian. So I have been a dual-national since birth. Even though I was born in England because my mum is Nigerian, so I was automatically a Nigerian citizen from birth. I have both a British and Nigerian passport. Because I have lived and even been schooled in both countries for portions of my life, this does encapsulate my hyphenated nationality.

So I'm wandering if any of you have dual citizenship and from which countries.

I remember seeing a statistic that estimated that just under two thirds of black Britons either have dual citizenship or are eligible for it. Not sure if that is accurate exactly. But I think this is something that defines the 'Black British experience as opposed to the black American experience. Because most of us come from immigrant backgrounds that means many of us are likely to be born with dual nationality/citizenship or at least be eligible even if the passport isn't taken up.

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u/blackjacobin_97 — 3 days ago
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What do you think of this passage about Nigerians relationship to Nigerian food?

It is from this article based on a passage from Yemisi Aribisala's book, Longthroat Memoirs:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/feb/04/book-extract-the-longthroat-memoirs-yemisi-aribisala

"And yet Nigerians don’t talk about their food. Even if people don’t realise it, even if many Nigerians themselves don’t know it, Nigerian food an endearing, enduring topic, because we have gone so long without talking about it. The relationship of the nouveau middle-to-upper-income-earning Nigerian to their food is a mixture of love, snobbery, the passion that results from the snobbery, and social repression. Nigerians will sit in restaurants – in every part of the world, in Lagos, and in Abuja – and eat sushi, fugu, Peruvian ceviche and piure. They will eat it all with an open mind, a fierce worldliness and a sexy congeniality, and then they will go home and bring out the amala (yam flour) and ewedu soup.

But we won’t start a public discussion with those who do not know our food intimately. I think perhaps it is a way of keeping what is sacrosanct just so by not tainting it with words."

u/blackjacobin_97 — 1 month ago
▲ 94 r/ChristopherHitchens+1 crossposts

Recording from 1988 of Christopher Hitchens, Edward Said and Alexander Cockburn talking about Israel-Palestine

Some of you might be interested in this from the vaults of an event from 1988, moderated by Alexander Cockburn, of Christopher Hitchens and Edward Said promoting their book, Blaming the Victims, on the Israel-Palestine conflict and just generally talking about the issue. Seems interesting in light of what's gone on in the past few years in that part of the world.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AkbInhvzew

u/blackjacobin_97 — 2 months ago