And my Americanness othered me enough to be intrigued by these things that most Nigerians saw as normal.

我的美国身份让我对这些大多数尼日利亚人认为正常的事情产生了浓厚的兴趣。

(Laughter) But it was our African Americanness that they were interested in, and the culture that we had developed over the last 400 years.

（笑声） 但他们感兴趣的是我们的非裔美国人， 以及我们在过去 400 年中发展起来的文化。