Zebib K.A, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/zebib-k-a/ A Home for Black Women Writers Wed, 01 Jul 2020 03:40:43 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0 https://i0.wp.com/www.midnightandindigo.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/unnamed-file.jpg?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 Zebib K.A, Author at midnight & indigo https://www.midnightandindigo.com/author/zebib-k-a/ 32 32 153713158 A Symptom of Migration: Your Children will be Traitors to your Nostalgia https://www.midnightandindigo.com/symptom-of-migration/ Wed, 01 Jul 2020 04:00:47 +0000 https://www.midnightandindigo.com/?p=76914 By age 6, I knew what nostalgia meant, and it already felt like a dirty word. Nostalgia was a lecture about old Africa, how things were better back then and there, yet again. Nostalgia was guilt and irritation, especially to a child trying to have fun. I wanted my own knickknacks, hoarded precious things, memories, risky adventures. We were supposed to feel nostalgic for a country we could not miss. My parents grew up in our homeland, Eritrea, East Africa. They would still be there, we would have been born there, they say, if it was not for the War.

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