One of my former co-workers was a British born, black woman of Afro-Caribbean descent. At the time we were working for a TV station in a city synonymous built on the profits of the slave trade and in celebration of the anniversary of abolition, they commissioned a series of shows to look back into the history of the city and the trade. For one of the shows, they paid for genetic testing for my colleague to find out which area of Africa it was most likely her ancestors hailed from. It turned out to be Ghana. They paid for her to travel there and I'll never forget talking to her about it when she got back. She told me the day she arrived in Ghana she walked through the market filming background shots when for the first time in her life, she realised she fitted in, she had found her place. There's a very sweet clip in her final film where she met a market trader and the similarity between them is striking! Good luck with your journey but don't ever forget that your identity is not only forged by your past, it's forged by the amazing person you are and the life you live in the present.
That's so cool. It's an emotional experience for sure. Thanks for the words of encouragement!