Classroom Resource: Suitcase Stories – U-Meleni and her destiny to be herself

U-Meleni Mhlaba-Adebo is a storyteller, artist, musician, and a poet. Born in the U.S., to parents from what was then Rhodesia, U-Meleni spent much of her childhood in Zimbabwe and South Africa, before returning to the United States. She shares that journey in the following excerpt from her Suitcase Story. This performance originally aired on WORLD channel’s Stories from the Stage.