A picture is worth a thousand words…
Childhood memories from Romania
Christmas with my Grandparents
With her Loving Grandparents – Christmas 1972
Baby Pictures
With Taticu – her white father
Baby Picture Mamica
With Mamica – her mother
Baby pic Angela 2
With her loving Aunt
Baby Pictures
With her white parents
Biological Parents 1
With her biological parents
Suceava 1984
With her sister and brother after she met her biological father who gave her his electronic watch
Sister in RO
Her black sister on her visit to Romania in 1984
Suceava 1984 -pe banca
With her grandfather and her white siblings wearing the same red dress her father bought for her and her black sister
Gradinita
Reciting a poem in Kindergarten – Suceava 1976
Clasa aIIIa
In third grade – proud pioneers
Dans Modern
With her modern dance group after a show in 1984
Birthday 1984
On her 13th Birthday with close friends
Memories from Lagos, Nigeria
In Lagos, Queen’s College Boarding school with good friends
Prize Giving Day in Queen’s College with a close friend
Toyin Bakare's confirmation in Queen's College
Sports Day 1990 in Queen's College
Sports Day in Queen’s College, February 1990
With good friends in Queen's College - February 1990
In Surulere Lagos with the house girl who was from Sierra Leone
At her father’s house in Lagos, two years after she left Romania
With her sisters in Lagos
With her uncle who mailed her letters from Lagos
With my brother and sisters in Lagos
Visiting Romania in July 1989
Celebrating with her white family on her first visit back home
Enjoying sweets with her sisters
With her mother and her black sister
With her white parents
With her dear Aunt
Her sisters dancing together
Her black sister became good friends with her white brother
With Taticu – her white father
With her white father and her black sister
Happy Romanian family together with her black sister
Treasured Items
Author’s Romanian book documented her pioneer activities
Declaration inside author’s Romanian pioneer book 1985
Author’s 1991 Diary provided most details found in the book
Author’s 1991 Diary featuring her signature on the first page
This signed bank note represents sweet memories
The other side of the bank note mentioned in the book
KLM itinerary for THE airline ticket that saved her life
The snake-skin wallet – a parting gift for her sweetheart
Message written by the author in the snake-skin wallet in 1991
This important note delivered critical information to the author
Official Letter used by author to board flight for Sierra Leone
Returning to Sierra Leone
On the ferry to Lungi where the International Airport is located
With her younger sister in Freetown – August 2005
Reunited with her sweetheart in Freetown – August 2005
Finally together again - my sweetheart and I on the beautiful beach of Sierra Leone - August 2005
Her sweetheart took her on top of the hill to enjoy a spectacular view of Freetown – Sept.2005
Behind her father’s home in Goderich – November 2008
With Sierra Leonean girls after interviewing them about FGM
With Members of Parliament after interviews in 2008
With President of Sierra Leone during research trip – 2008
Fun memories with her adoptive mother in Freetown 2008
Visiting her adoptive mother in her home - October 2008
Living in America
With her mother in Los Angeles celebrating 4th of July
With her black father at the United Nations in New York 2002
Her black father with her white siblings in Los Angeles 2002
Her black father cooking in her Los Angeles apartment – 2002
With her mother – Graduation from Calstate LA in June 2003
Graduation 2003 with her white brother
Celebrating her mother’s 60th Birthday together in LA
At UC Irvine with her committee members after defending her dissertation proposal on FGM in the Parliament of Sierra Leone
With her graduate school advisor, Professor David Snow, after she completed her dissertation on FGM in Sierra Leone
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With Professor Ann Hironaka at the University of Califoria, Irvine
Vagina Monologues at UC Irvine - with SWF supporter and UCI student Stephen Marley
Vagina Monologues at UC Irvine - on the stage with Students and Eve Ensler
Birthday fun with grad-school friends at UC Irvine – 2009
Celebrating with graduate school friends
With her Nigerian girlfriends celebrating in Texas – April 2010
With her white brother in Los Angeles
With her white sister in Los Angeles
With Katie, her graduate school friend in California -May 2009
With Professor Ruben Rumbaut at UC Irvine in 2009
With Ijeoma, her long time QC friend, in California – Nov. 2009
With Toyin, her best friend from QC, in Texas – April 2010
With UCI Vice Chancellor Parham finally holding her Ph. D. diploma
With Scott Fifer, founder of GO Campaign – November 2012
With Professor Tom Spencer-Walters at California State University, Northridge – February 2013
With friends and her sister at the African Fellowship Fundraiser in LA
Jackie and Nina2
With Jackie Collins whose famous book "Lucky" inspired the author at a crucial time
Presentation on FGM at the University of Southern California
Presentation about FGM in Sierra Leone at the Soroptimist of Downey in California
The identities of some of author’s family members have been protected as they each declined participation.