Family Quote by Tom Morello

My parents met in Kenya. My father is African, is Kenyan. The Kenyan side of my family was involved in the anti-colonial movement.

— Tom Morello

My parents emigrated to the United Kingdom from Kenya and Mauritius in the 1960s. They were born during the British Empire and admired this…

— Suella Braverman

Living in South Africa and periodically coming back to Kenya, my relationship with officialdom in Kenya was just insane.

— Binyavanga Wainaina

I grew up in Sudan and Kenya, and lived in both the rural and urban centers of both countries throughout my life.

— Erik Hersman

I didn't grow up with my Kenyan family. I grew up in a small, conservative suburb of Chicago.

— Tom Morello

My childhood best friend moved to Kenya when we were still young, and since I missed her so much, I always hoped to visit…

— Leila Lopes

In 1985 as a teenager in Kenya, I was an adamant member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he…

— Lupita Nyong'o

I'm the daughter of a Kenyan Catholic father and a Mauritian Hindu mother, and I have a Jewish husband who was born in South…

— Suella Braverman

I lived in Nigeria, Chad, and Cameroon when I was very young, until my mother divorced my father.

— Patrick Cox

I was born to a Nigerian dad and a Kenyan mom, and coming to the States was really academic.

— Dayo Okeniyi

My father is Nigerian; my mother is from Texas and African-American. My father was the first in his family to go to university. He…

— Kehinde Wiley