
Kelefa Sanneh
Apology
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The Importance of Reading as a Kid
My father who passed away a few years ago was a historian of religion. He's from Gambia, which is located inside Senegal in West Africa. And he converted as a teenager to Christianity and then got a scholarship to go study in the US eventually graduated from Union College in Schenectady. His mother spent nearly 30 years teaching Yale students how to speak Zulu. Yeah, they were both kind of scholars of Africa.
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