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Why returning home can feel like visiting a foreign country

I went to a comedy show in Lagos and realized I've been so Americanized that half the jokes went over my head and I felt like a stranger in my own homeland.

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More people experience this than they realize.

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Assimilation has created a gap between who you were and who you've become, leaving you belonging fully nowhere.

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“Where Are You with African comedy traditions?”

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