Kindergarten students dance for their teacher at the Prempeh College Kindergarten in Kumasi, Ghana, an early childhood education program supported by Israel. | Maudlyne Ihejirika/Sun-Times

Africa visit leaves ex-refugee grateful America was welcoming

It was my first trip back to Africa in too many years, I’m ashamed to say. Having immigrated to the United States as a refugee of the Nigerian-Biafran War in 1969, I’d only gone back once, though my mother and siblings have visited many, many times. In the last two years, as I completed my book, “Escape From Nigeria: A Memoir of Faith, Love and War,” I had relived the horrors of a war that had ended with my family’s miraculous escape from Biafra — while more than 2 million of my Igbo tribe died of starvation and massacre. I hadn’t been back to Africa in more years than I care to admit, because I’d get teased about it. When I was invited to join a foreign press delegation to Ghana:READ MORE

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