Black or White

Lara Ige knew when she was young that she wasn't quite the same as everyone else in local environment in Nigeria, where she was born. Other children and even some adults would call her 'oyinbo,' a nickname that literally meant 'white-skinned one.' As a teenager, her mother, Eunice, finally revealed the story that gave birth to Lara and her mixed ethnicity—the story about how she and a young Irishman had fallen in love, and how by the time Eunice realized she was pregnant, the young Irishman...