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Episode 19: Yellow in a Room of Blue: Anthea Taljaard's Journey From South Africa to Nova Scotia
Anthea Taljaard was born in Durban, South Africa, and grew up traveling constantly. Her father packed the family into a caravan for nearly every holiday, instilling in her a lifelong comfort with the unfamiliar. She spent most of her adult life in South Africa, including her years in the small whale-watching village of Hermanus near Cape Town, before escalating political violence made staying no longer an option.
She left, as she describes it, on “the basis of survival,” taking a contract to teach business skills to women in Saudi Arabia's newly opened women's colleges, a role that meant…
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