I feel empowered by my experience to make my home where I choose to. I'm living in the United States now but maintaining a bicontinental existence. I've been to Africa twice this year and plan to move back semi-permanently in the near future.
Home is less about geography than about family and relationships.
There are more and more hybrids that are yielding these new identities. A lot of us are going to have divided allegiances and more complex approaches to identity and nationality. Right now, Dar es Salaam in Tanzania is where I feel at home. It's where my mother lives. I write in the book about romanticism and how, so often, Africans and African-Americans have looked at each other with this sense of idealism and romanticism.