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They were in uniform, probably just let out of school. On the drive back to the airport, I saw three boys. Even a Nigerian raised in Nigeria, such as myself, may become a sun worshipper after repeated exposure to British winters. After a few hours, I thought to myself: maybe this sun worship is not a race thing but a living in a cold climate thing. I read Michelle ObamaвЂ™s memoirs while I roasted gently. One day I joined the sun worshippers on the beach.

I watched a man throw his net into the water at dawn and catch sardines. In the mornings, people would come to our beach and fish for a meal. It was a right that was fought for by the likes of the calypsonian Mighty Gabby.

Resorts can be built by the beach, but they canвЂ™t stop locals from walking on them. Despite Barbados relying heavily on tourism, it has no private beaches, unlike some other Caribbean islands. An elderly, white clientele served by black staff in a former slave plantation.ДЄnd yet, and yet, it was beautiful to be in black man country. There was something wrong with the optics of that place. It was an old, nostalgic beauty built on blood. It was a former slave plantation, preserved in all its infamy, with shutters, verandas, landscaped gardens and rattan chairs lining the pool. On the day of my parentsвЂ™ anniversary we went to another resort for a change of scenery. Others maybe didnвЂ™t want to serve a black family, and an African one at that, seeing it as a demotion of some sort. Some staff were happy to see us, an affluent black family. Sometimes we were treated with extra cordiality, at other times with sharp brusqueness: the intersection of race and class, perhaps. The only other black faces were waiters, porters and watersports instructors.

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Every half hour or so, they would turn so their skin could cook evenly in this sun worship ritual.ДЇor most of our stay, we were the only black guests in the entire resort. It was like watching buns bake in an oven. From about 10 each morning, scores of white holidaymakers would drift to the sunloungers at our beach resort and spread their semi-naked bodies across the oceanfront. You can just see the roof.вЂќ Where did the rich black Barbadians live? Had they been run off all the prime property on their own island? вЂњThatвЂ™s Simon CowellвЂ™s house.вЂќ вЂњThatвЂ™s Wayne RooneyвЂ™s house.

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On the drive to our resort, the driver pointed out landmarks with pride. Black man not quite welcome in black man country. Why would they choose to become an illegal immigrant when they had a good quality of life at home? But to be an African traveller, even in a country peopled by the descendants of Africans, was to be automatically viewed with suspicion. Any Nigerian who could afford to travel to Barbados on holiday would not want to overstay.