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42 GENERATIONS

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     It's that time of year again! Mariah has ushered us into the season and screamed the ever famous "it's time...!!!". If you are like me, you were playing Christmas carols during the summer, so your playlist is probably all Christmas tunes now, with a little Afrobeat here and there for the plot you know :) Corporate calendars are ripe with weird "office Christmas parties" or News Year's parties where you go practice a few fake smiles in hopes of getting a promotion in the coming year and don't get me started on that dreadful white elephant gift exchanges. Let's just say I believe in genuine gift giving. Your Amazon cart is probably full of Christmas gifts for various family members and friends and considering inflation, you maybe reconsidering how many gifts you were intending to get. Probably somewhere in your mind, "they will understand if I don't get them anything; it's been a tough year". As my adult brain tracks back and...
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IT'S BEEN A WHILE...

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I did not realize how long I had not posted a blog until this morning. I was in a work meeting earlier today when someone pointed out; "what does an African Nomad stand for; have you been traveling in Africa"? I froze for about 10 seconds because I had forgotten my Gmail account still had "an African nomad" as the username.  A part of my brain had to recollect that I used to post blogs some 8 years ago! The fact that it's been 8 years is mentally jarring to think about.  A big part of why I started this blog was to share my experiences as a Ghanaian immigrant some decade ago when I first moved to the US as a student. I wanted to share about my new life here, partially due to extreme home sickness; a longing for what I once knew and yet a hopefulness for newness I was being challenged to embrace. I lived a big part of my life prior to immigrating to the US, with my parents and 4 sisters. We lived in several cities and small towns in the Southern part of the West ...
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