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Mother Tongue

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The Importance of Speaking Your Language

She says she felt a sense of belonging to her people, but still didn't speak Gah. She had this Zimbabwean professor who helped her look at things differently. "Every day I would wake up and be like, oh, I'm so African," she says.

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