Reflections on Black Tax: Love, Guilt or Entitlement?
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ABIGAIL KABANDULA
BLACK tax has embedded itself into the private arithmetic of diaspora life – less a line item than a habit of mind, a quiet deduction I make before any other calculation begins. It is not taught in classrooms, nor captured in the tidy abstractions of economics. There, one encounters the term remittances, a phrase favored by the World Bank, which has noted – almost with surprise – that money sent home by Africans abroad outpaces official development assistance.
BLACK tax has embedded itself into the private arithmetic of diaspora life – less a line item than a habit of mind, a quiet deduction I make before any other calculation begins. It is not taught in classrooms, nor captured in the tidy abstractions of economics. There, one encounters the term remittances, a phrase favored by the World Bank, which has noted – almost with surprise – that money sent home by Africans abroad outpaces official development assistance.
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