IMAGE is re-publishing this article as part of World Day for Cultural Diversity for Dialogue and Development. “That security guard is following us again,” Nigerian Irish-language broadcaster and writer Ola Majekodunmi tells me as she recounts being racially profiled while shopping with her mum as a child. It still happens often enough. “I’m on guard a lot when I go to the supermarket and always feel kind of paranoid if I see a security guard. It’s...
