Day: February 4, 2026
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We Are The World
By Amara Okonkwo, Cultural Anthropologist. The first time I truly understood what it meant to be between two worlds was at a family dinner in Lagos. My grandmother served jollof rice with the same reverence my American colleagues showed for Thanksgiving turkey. In that moment, I realized I was neither fully Nigerian nor fully American—I…
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Visionary entrepreneurs leveraging their dual cultural knowledge
When I founded my first company at 24, connecting suppliers in Shenzhen with retailers in San Francisco, I had one advantage my competitors lacked: I grew up in both worlds. My childhood summers in my grandfather’s trading company in Guangzhou gave me insights that no MBA program could teach. The diaspora entrepreneur occupies a unique…