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Blue Taxis: Stories About Africa - Eileen Drew
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"...In another, a white diplomat's daughter is accosted by a native black Ghanian: "You think nothing can happen here because you are white. White people can't be poor in Africa. You never get our problems, there's nothing that can touch that watery skin." Then there's Little Zola, who covets a pair of glasses so he can see like white people: "Colors must be different, everything would sparkle. What if buildings were like the bolts of cloth standing on end in the market—rows and rows of print so different the flowers from one jumped into the trees of the next?"..."
(E.B., p. 38)