How This Black Woman Fell In Love With Country Music

It’s surely not what you think

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I was a 9-year-old girl from Sierra Leone, West Africa when I moved to Switzerland. I faced horrendous bullying and racism at school in this predominantly white country, and it affected me immensely.

In school, I used to feel a lot of anxiety in the afternoons because as soon as the bell rang…