My Reflections On Racism

An Irish Approach

Our Youth Project at Nano Nagle Place in Cork following the murder of George Floyd in 2020

At the end of 2022, I retired from teaching and a few months later left Ireland, where I’d lived for six years, and moved back to Germany, where I’d previously lived for over forty years. My mother was Irish and my father was from Nigeria, where I was born. In the late 1960s, my parents sent me to school in Cork, Ireland. Cork — the real capital of Ireland, by the way, according to the…