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Jun 2019
21m 44s

Entre deux mondes (Between Two Worlds)

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For a long time, Paris was the only place Alexia Sena considered home. But when Alexia began to wonder how she would pass down her Cameroonian heritage to her mixed-race daughter born in France, she decided to move back to Cameroon with her family in search of the identity she thought she lost.

Study materials and a transcript of this episode are available at https://bit.ly/3G2NWGo.

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