Africa: Black in America - an African's View

17 December 2014
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The major difference between African-Americans and Africans living in the US is that African-Americans on the whole want to fight the racist system, while Africans in the US often just want to survive the racist system, says our blogger Sunny Ntayombya.

I've never been to the United States and I honestly have little desire to. Yes, a lot of Africans think that its streets are paved with gold and life is so much better over there; but the truth is, to live the American Dream as a black African and especially as a black man, certain trade-offs will have to be made. Trade-offs that are not mentioned in US embassy brochures and Hollywood movies. And if you turn a blind eye to these trade-offs, you will be in a whole lot of trouble.

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