I'm First Generation American, And My Parents Were Both From Nigeria. And So I Always Say That I'm Literally An African American. So My Last Name Is Famuyiwa, It's Different. And So That Was A Part Of My Experience From People Not Being Able To Pronounce It To Not Sort Of Having Sort Of A Shared, Common History With A Lot Of The Kids That I Was Growing Up With Because My Parents Were From Africa.
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I'm First Generation American, And My Parents
Terry Gross
I'm First Generation American, And My Parents Were Both From Nigeria. And So I Always Say That I'm Literally An African American. So My Last Name Is Famuyiwa, It's Different. And So That Was A Part Of My Experience From People Not Being Able To Pronounce It To Not Sort Of Having Sort Of A Shared, Common History With A Lot Of The Kids That I Was Growing Up With Because My Parents Were From Africa.
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