In Search of an Old Colonial Outpost in Zambia, Where My Parents Met

Part II: Searching for Home Across Continents

Flying into Ndola in Zambia’s Copperbelt. Photo by Christina Hoag.

After Lagos, I fly to Johannesburg and from there into the abdomen of Africa, to Zambia, where I was conceived and almost born. As the prop plane descends over Zambia’s Copperbelt Province, I press my forehead to the windowpane. The sky is a cerulean vault so wide and deep I want to dive into it. Below…