My parents are __ but I was born in _.

Well?

My parents are Nigerian, but I was born in NJ so I'm Nigerian American.
I was just curious to see who the "kid's-of-African-parent's" were on this board. I think I've seen a few...
Any stories about growing up in a different country with jamaican/african/haitian/etc parents?

Spill!

-Uchenna

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Permalink Reply by Lilian Bonaparte on April 26, 2009 at 6:06pm

Here!! Parents are Ghanian, but I wz born in Canada!! :3

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Permalink Reply by blackstardust on April 30, 2009 at 2:50pm

my dad is trinidadian and my mum is guyanese but i was born in california where we apparently lived for a short stint.

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Permalink Reply by blackstardust on April 30, 2009 at 2:53pm

yay! my mummy's guyanese. kewl kewl.

Daoud said:

Born in the US (D.C., raised in Philly). Parents from the Caribbean (both born in Guyana, SouthAmerica; though my Mom's folks are from Nevis & Grenada).

In Philly this used to be an anomoly growing up, West Indian parents & American children ('yo, where is your Dad from, Jamaica?...) . But by my teens I found out this was most common with many Black folks in northeastern cities like New York City.

It was happily shocking to find out over time that most all folks invovled in NYC Hip Hop were from the Caribbean/West Indies. From Kool Herc (Jamaica), Grandmaster Flash (Barbados), Afrika Bambaataa (JA & Barbados), Fat Joe (Puerto Rico/Cuba), Big Pun (Dominican Republic), Busta Rhymes (JA), LL Cool J (JA), Salt & Pepa (JA), Herbie 'Lovebug' Azor (Haiti), Wyclef (Haiti), Biggie/BIG (JA), Jay-Z (Grenada), etc.

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Permalink Reply by Seven on May 17, 2009 at 7:50am

Add me to the list. My dad is from Kinshasa ( Democratic Republic of Congo) and me mum is from Congo (Brazzaville). I was lucky enough to live there for about five years when I was a pup so I learned to speak Lingala and French while I was there. At that time the economy wasn't as horrid as it is now and so. I'm glad to have lived there. I'm Americanized in many respects but I would say that my politics and worldview are closer o the African perspective or way of looking at things.

Speaking of first generation kids, that really is a whole other area of Afropunk. All I gotta say is Thank God for punk rock because both of my folks are mad traditional and I dunno if I woulda survived without it. I know so many first generation Africans as well as Indians( from India-not native Americans) and South Americans who never had the balls to stand up to their parents. For some of us on this board, punk wasn't just another stupid music genre, it was hella lot more...

peace & love
-7-

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Permalink Reply by CocoaPuss Zine on May 17, 2009 at 11:26am

my son's dad is from uganda and his mom (me) is american. so he's african american. i'm just regular american.

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Permalink Reply by LesYpersound on May 17, 2009 at 1:53pm

i'm curious--how do you feel about this:
you're african/black american and your son is ugandan american
???

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Permalink Reply by CocoaPuss Zine on May 17, 2009 at 4:42pm

i'm happy my son has some sort of african culture and tribe to belong to. i'm actually kinda jealous that he has a tribal language and land and family and history. i mean of course as african americans we do have that too, but not to the same degree as my jake does. he knows exactly where his family comes from on his dad's side. his family has always lived there. that's dope.

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Permalink Reply by Dr. Know on May 19, 2009 at 12:57am

my grandparents were colored, my parents were negroes, I was black.

Now we are African-Americans. My children will be free.

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Permalink Reply by Fashionfreak on May 23, 2009 at 1:50am

I was born in NY my mom is a full blown Jamaican meanwhile my father is from Trinidad and his mom is Venezuelan + dad is Grendadian . I am still pretty much very American though . .

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Permalink Reply by XiaMin on August 4, 2009 at 4:40am

My mom is Bajan and my dad is african american. Her mom is swedish and african and her dad is Panamanian. His folks are sketchy on the origins. I used to think that made me afro-carib-latina but now i think it just makes me me. I was born in the US but raised all over....I always just say/put 'other' when asked.