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Lots of this book is brilliant. As the child of an ANC operative, Msimang lived in Zambia, Kenya and Canada and finally college in the US while her parents lived for a time in Ethiopia. When apartheid finally ends, the family feels it is time to "go home" but building a new society and finding one's place in it is not that simple. Msimang's portrayal of her childhood in exile and many of her scenes of the difficulties of return are brilliant. But, despite her many avowals to the contrary, one st
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I laughed. I cried. My chest felt tight. This book was an emotional roller-coaster. I have always been a fan of Sisonke Msimang’s writing. She is courageous. She doesn’t pull punches. She’s smart. She makes sense. She challenges us. I wouldn’t let anybody talk to me until I finished reading Always Another Country. I think I needed to hear everything she had to say so that I could compare her thoughts with my (wildly different but not without some common ground) life experiences. Msimang makes me
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