One, my writer friend Rasna Warah and two, Teddy Osei, the founder of the afro-rock band, Osibisa. Long before academics invented the idea of global blackness, Osei and his buddies from Nigeria ...

Rasna carried with her a history that was both deeply personal and profoundly collective. Her lineage stretched back to the late 19th century, when her great-grandfather arrived in East Africa ...