This image has been making the rounds…



The image was taken at the Brussels 1958 World’s Fair. And if that girl is still alive, and if she lives in the US (which is not impossible), she wouldn’t be old enough to qualify for Medicare. As for me: I was born in an African-only hospital. This kind of history is far from old.

Charles Mudede—who writes about film, books, music, and his life in Rhodesia, Zimbabwe, the USA, and the UK for The Stranger—was born near a steel plant in Kwe Kwe, Zimbabwe. He has no memory...