>> this is what i wrote when i left grad school and when i was thinking about deterritorialized brownple. after writing an article, i was thinking of that context. it occurs to me that what i'm describing is something one finds all over the world. i describe it has being in an anteroom, a waiting room. there's a door - i could be american. there's a door i could be british. there's i could be nigeria. i could be ghanan. no one in those places looks at me and says "yes, she is ghanan", there's no doubt in anyone's mind here. >> what is an afropolitan, what are the characteristics. >> in 2005, 10 years ago, all i was describing was the experience. i didn't mean to suggest everyone that shares the experience is not the same or can be defined by seven criteria, i was fascinated by the experience, by what it is to come into your 20, into your 30, into your self without there being one place in the world to be displaced. to be someone who knows yourself though your relationships through what - though your passions, through what means most to you, also through your heart breaks, through the