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I go back to Africa every year. I have a home there. You know, my grandfather lives back there in Cameroon.

I grew up in different parts of Africa. I grew up in Mozambique and places like that. I've been in South Africa many times.

My life was filled with family in South Sudan. I am the seventh of nine children, and we grew up in what would be considered a middle-class family. We did not have a lot, but we did have more than a lot of other people.

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.

My grandparents on my father's side came to this country from the Caribbean with a strong connection to Africa and no shame about it.

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

My father was an agricultural economist. In 1989 he was posted to Mbarara, a small town on the Uganda-Rwanda border.