Home is where the hustle is

The Stoop

Hana Baba and Leila Day

Identity, International, Thestoop, Blackness, Storytelling, African, Personal Journals, Africanamerican, Blackidentity, Blackart, Journalism, Society & Culture, Black, Diaspora, Blackculture

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🗓️ 18 November 2022

⏱️ 30 minutes

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Summary

When we have feet in two worlds, how do we choose to live in one place, and not the other?
Today we’re handing over the mic to our friends at NPR’s Rough Translation, hosted by Gregory Warner. In this episode, ‘Home is where the hustle is’, Nigerian author Chibundu Onuzo is thinking about moving from the UK to Lagos, and she’s getting advice from her big brother, filmmaker Chinaza Onuzo, about having enough “hustle” to succeed back home in Nigeria.

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0:00.0	The Stoop.
0:06.0	The Stoop.
0:07.0	The Stoop.
0:08.0	The Stoop.
0:09.0	Stories coming across the black diaspora.
0:11.0	That we need to talk about.
0:12.0	My cousins were water and grease girls.
0:14.0	And I couldn't be a water and grease girl.
0:16.0	That's what I'm talking about about arena in the hood.
0:18.0	We be color-git-ja-nited people.
0:20.0	When a black woman walks up to the desk in labor,
0:25.0	what preconceived notions do you have about her?
0:28.0	I didn't even know we had a hair shark.
0:36.0	The Stoop.
0:42.0	Hey, Hannah.
0:43.0	Hey, Leela.
0:44.0	Have you ever thought to yourself,
0:46.0	who would I be if I grew up somewhere else?
0:50.0	Like, how much does my country or wherever I call home shape who I am?
0:57.0	Yeah, I mean, I've thought about that a lot.
0:59.0	I grew up in Las Vegas.
1:00.0	What if I grew up in Nigeria?
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