Conversations with my daughter
My daughter is growing up. At 19, I'm thinking that she has reached an age where she has (or should have) a certain awareness of her identity and knowledge of the political environment she's growing up into. A few days ago, as we watched the news, there was a report on the PM's visit to the North West Region. Commentaries that followed made reference to 'Ambazonians'. I decided to tease her. Usually, when we chat, we swing almost 50/50 between French and English. I do not know why I chose to ask the question in French, but I did. I asked her: Me : Est-tu Ambazonienne? Her : No Daddy (unhesitantly) Me : C'est quoi l'Ambazonie pour toi? Her : (laughing) C'est la zone d'en bas 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Ehmm... That was an interesting rhyme/twist. I hadn't heard that before... But it stunned me silent. I don't know if the answer would have been different if I had asked the question in English. She had lived most of her teenage years in the French...