![]() And what is she part of now, anyway? Kaakyire wonders about her place in the American narrative and whether she genuinely belongs in the Black American struggle. In the new home being offered to her, she sees a possibility for greater stability and, perhaps, a pathway toward self-realization. ![]() Back in California, Kaakyire lives the precarious (though relatively privileged) existence of a creative worker constantly on the verge of being laid off. Afia Kaakyire, the 30-ish Ghanaian American from the Bay Area who narrates the series, finds herself in Accra with a grand offer from her parents: an apartment of her own, free of charge, in a residential complex that her parents - themselves returned to Ghana after a hardscrabble life in the United States - have developed. Like many fraught stories, S***hole Country turns on a question of real estate.
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