Lubelo Mthenjana, who’s 11, performs a magic trick involving fire during the annual junior magic contest at the College of Magic in Cape Town, South Africa. Tommy Trenchard for NPR hide caption toggle caption i Tommy Trenchard for NPR Dressed in a sharp black three-piece suit and a dapper yellow bow tie, Lubelo Mthenjana stands
Moving to a new country comes with plenty of adjustments, from language to social rules, but I didn’t expect to feel out of place in my own body. Before moving to Japan from New Zealand, I was mostly content with how I looked, having already survived the body-image hurdles of early motherhood. Despite being a
