Special after the escape. mecca ever in our knows what it s like to start over from scratch she was nineteen when she came to germany the child of a german mother and a nigerian father she d had to fight for acceptance in her homeland of nigeria her mother laughed when she was just two so now you could grow up with her father and stepmother. her brother wrote a book that describes how their stepmother tormented and starved them back then naked was forced to do the housework here in hamburg her new home she likes to cook but it was a time when i didn t feel like a stranger here in the beginning you know coming here. thinking half of my life that was half white and all that stuff. that they call it half caste in our country. which is in the name for people who are. ....