African Students Open Window on Their Lives - washingtonpost.com: "Living in Silver Spring and attending Springbrook High School as a student of African heritage, Aminata Sesay wanted her classmates to understand how her life was different from theirs.
So she decided to write a play with her friend and fellow Springbrook senior, Gifty Addai.
The resulting work, "Who Am I?," explores the issue of identity through the viewpoint of an immigrant teenage girl who is being raised by her African father in the United States. Switching between the settings of an unnamed, war-torn African country in 1968 and the present in the United States, the story deals with the timeless issue of communication between parents and teens -- compounded by cultural clashes.
"The idea was already in all of our minds, to express how we felt as African American students," said Sesay, an 18-year-old whose family left Sierra Leone 13 years ago. "We wanted to show everyone what we go through every day."
