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Making Contact - Black and African (encore edition)

African immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the black population in the U.S. But the cultural boundaries between black Americans and African immigrants are hard to break down. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="200" caption="Mauton. Source: Mauton Akran."][/caption] African immigrants are the fastest growing segment of the black population in the U.S. But the cultural boundaries between black Americans and African immigrants are hard to break down. On this edition, we meet Mauton Akran, a Nigerian immigrant growing up in Oakland, California, and we explore the tensions between …