In the late spring of 2005, my parents went on a mission trip to Kitwe, Zambia. They came back with the usual stuff. Food I’d never seen before, clothes with the most intricate patterns and wonderful colors, and a spoon. Yeah, a spoon. But not just any spoon—a Nshima spoon that would come to stir our family in ways my siblings and I never could have ima…
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