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1 Growing Up African in Australia : Racism, Resilience and the Right to Belong Kathomi Gatwiri , 2019 single work review
— Appears in: The Conversation , 4 April 2019;
— Review of Growing Up African in Australia 2019 anthology autobiography poetry

'For many African-diaspora people in Australia, belonging means masking yourself. To fit in is to curate one’s Africanness and one’s blackness. You teach yourself to see-saw between the splitting identities of who Australia needs you to be, and who you really are. You just never simply are.' (Introduction)
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