Having lived in Romania for the last 10 years, I am still amazed by the difference in our cultural way of being. Being born in Burundi and living there until the age of 24, I feel both proud and lucky to be an African. “It is said that the child belongs to the community”. This family is not just your mother or father who brought you into the world. It’s your aunts and uncles, both maternal and paternal, your cousins, that very close friend and family neighbor and the list goes on. From the time I was a child I knew that I had to respect adults regardless of whether…