Alexia Senna is a French woman through and through.

Her families from Cameroon and her African background is an undeniable part of her life.

But it's not one she ever thought much about living in Paris.

Except those moments, she felt people misunderstood her.

She came off as so French that she couldn't possibly be anything else.

One time a colleague said this to her at work.

She said,

You're black, but you're not African.

You're not born in the sea.

You never lived in the sea.

You don't have accent.

Well, he was wrong because Alexia had lived in Cameroon for 10 years,

from when she was 5 to when she was 15.

In fact, I have an accent that I'm not.

But I never use it.

These roles, people don't understand me.

They see only the outside and they don't understand that there's something else.

When people got confused by her background,

Alexia mainly shrugged it off.

But then her daughter started to ask questions

that made Alexia want to understand her connection to Cameroon.

And that changed everything.

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