Three generations. Three continents. One question: what does it mean to be Eritrean when your children have never seen the Red Sea?
Samira was born in Asmara in 1971. Her daughter Liya was born in Stockholm in 1999. Liya's daughter Mia was born in 2022. Three generations of the same family — and three entirely different relationships with a country called Eritrea.
"I cook the food, I play the music, I speak Tigrinya at home," Samira told us. "But sometimes I wonder: am I preserving a culture, or am I preserving a memory of a culture that has already changed beyond recognition?"
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