Sara’o Maozac writes, 'When I decided to order it that night, it was mainly because that's what the children were eating at the adjacent table...And so, it was in a bowl of groundnut soup that I found some solace in Ghana.'
Bulk food is a survival strategy. I grew up with three brothers and three sisters in a home with academic parents; there was never any money, ever. But funds magically tripled under the vise grip of my mother's well-wielded membership cards. My siblings and I spent countless weekends pushing carts through the icy, broad aisles of those warehouses: Sam's Club, Pace, Costco, BJ's, Price Club.
My father's peanut butter stew period was the result of one of these Costco excursions. He was a Black radical in his youth, eventually doing some fairly significant organizing work in Trinidad before moving to the States, where he met my mother in graduate school. My siblings and I grew up in a staunchly Afrocentric household of after-dinnerin our home.
Unsuccessful, I was in the throes of what can best be described as shell shock when I came across the Savoy Hotel, nestled at the foot of a hill just four short blocks from. It was cheap, moderately clean, quiet, and extremely vacant; mine was the only occupied room. It had overhead fans; the requisite painting of the city's slave forts; a large, firm bed; a gas burner; and a porch on which I could chain-smoke in privacy. Once I arrived, I barely set foot outside for a week and a half.
I approached each interaction harboring a desire for a warm Black embrace, a homecoming, and instead was met with cold shoulders and the moniker."Oburoni" is a term that literally translates to"alien," but signifies whiteness in Ghana."Oburoni" was delivered with a celebratory lilt when it addressed my white travel companions, but when it addressed me, oburoni truly meant"other.
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