We emigrated to South Africa and later to Canada so I went to school in several places.
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I spent my childhood in Newfoundland and then my junior high and high school years in Alberta, Canada.
I was born in Lagos, Nigeria, and I moved to Anderson, Indiana, in 2003 to go to school. I finished high school in America, then I went to college.
I went to school in Tanzania for two years, from five to seven. I started off in my mother's school with a lot of African children - but then I was put into the international school.
I went to elementary school in Ottawa, and then to a private secondary school.
I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.
My parents were both from Scotland, but had been resident in Lower Canada some time before their marriage, which took place in Montreal; and in that city I spent most of my life.
I immigrated to the United States in 2001 for college.
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.
I lived in South Africa until I was 11 when we first immigrated. My mom had sent me back there when I was 14 for summer vacation. I wasn't doing very well in school, my grades were slipping. I called my mom one day and told her that I wasn't coming back. I ended up staying there until I was 17 before coming back to North America.
I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.