Wednesday 1 April 2009

Second generation Lebanese

Today I met someone I've never met before - a second generation Lebanese African. His grandfather first settled in Guinea in the late 1940s, and Houssein (note the French spelling of Hussein) studied in Guinea and later in Paris and the USA. He speaks accentless English and French, and has never even been to the Lebanon. He travels on French & Guinean passports, and considers home to be Guinea, and he is very challenged by the Lebanese who come to Africa to make their fortune and send all their money back to the Lebanon without investing in Africa. An inspiration to ex-pats everywhere. Olly

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