Nora Chipaumire S Portrait Of Myself As My Father Is A Search For Someone She Never Knew

Zimbabwe-born performance artist Nora Chipaumire never really knew her father, who left her family when she was five. But once she made a name for herself as a dancer-choreographer in New York, she started hearing from other Chipaumires.

“The honest answer is yes,” she notes. “Because reconciling my relationship with my father means reconciling my relationship with a black man. And that’s a minefield.”