Honorée Fanonne Jeffers
Drinking Senegalese Tea with Mint after a Visit to the Slave House of Gorée Island
(May 24, 2012, Dakar, Senegal, West Africa) for Idrissa Diakhaté This is what I said I wouldn’t do: let a West African man court me. Attempt to make him comprehend my confusion of languages and flavors: I am not a mulatto. I am the daughter of two Black Americans— who both are the children of …