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<\/a>A summer Florida morning served as the backdrop for a business-ish meeting between new girlfriends and\u00a0young lady bawses<\/a>.\u00a0Starbucks and laughter, discussions on marriage, relationships, expressions of femininity, and personal dreams took precedent\u00a0over laptops and notebooks for more than half of our time together, but sometimes business is less about numbers and more about building relationships. Enesha, like most professional contacts,\u00a0calls me Danielle – my birth name and the name I give to most people. So she asked a question that I rarely hear anymore – “So where did Ama come from?” I smiled, because it’s a story I’m just as rarely able to tell anymore.<\/p>\n\n
FAMU and their infamous MBA program greeted me less than two weeks after returning from a summer on the shores and in the bush of Mozambique. The transition was rough. I was still dazed from reverse culture shock, amid Finance classes and a body that refused to readjust to American food. I tried\u00a0to stay connected to that African perfection, and connected with the Afrocentric<\/em> crowd. Ankara\u00a0prints\u00a0and brass earrings and natural hair and spoken word and the self-identifier Conscious<\/em> adorned them; my Mozambican brothers and sisters wore none of these, but I made a home in this new space in an effort to prolong the connection that was made thousands of miles away.<\/p>\n