Sentence examples for african upbringing from inspiring English sources

That is a syndrome that has fascinated me all my life because of my South African upbringing.

In many particulars — her South African upbringing, her uprooted life, her acute postpartum depression after the birth of her last child, her hard-working and often absent husband, her radiant smile overlying pain and her powerlessness before her own self-destructive urges — Carol resembled my mother.

Weaving memories of his African upbringing, his Jewish-immigrant parents, his marriages and what it was like to live in "crazy-sensible L.A". during the 1992 riots, it earned good notices, including one in the New York Times that called it "partial but intense, more rumination than narrative".

It subtly mythologises Wright's African American upbringing and fearlessly confronts southern racism.

The film, which tells of the former South African president's upbringing and the 27 years he spent in prison, has been chosen as this year's Royal Film Performance.

Although much of this coming-of-age show evokes Mr. Cook-Dizney's middle-class American upbringing with wry affection, it also includes, in a wall piece, a politically pointed homage to African-American figures of the past.

"Mr. Gibbs not only identified his wrongful sexual-assault accusation as traumatic but was able to reflect on how his upbringing and the African-American experience of slavery still play a role in how he manages pain and hardship.

Obama also likened her own upbringing, as an African-American girl from a working-class family who grew up on the South Side of Chicago and worked hard to get an education, to that of predominantly Muslim and Bangladeshi girls who attend the school.

Thirty-seven yeago agon on this same ground, another South African, albeit one of vastly different upbringing, made the same score for England against Australia and the world was never to be the same again.

Asked where, if he was starting from scratch, he would start a business today, he wryly recalled that his "tough upbringing" in the South African schools system "was possibly pretty helpful".

You have only to look at the White House to see a man whose upbringing in Hawaii and Kansas and Indonesia, with African blood, gave him an unusually large repertoire of voices and selves.