MY MOM SAID MY FATHER WAS SWAZI TO SAVE ME - TREVOR NOAH

MBABANE – OOPS! For a second there, at a shufti through comedian Trevor Noah’s new tell-all books, one would think that he was born a Swazi.

As a host of the hit USA TV show ‘The Daily Show’, Trevor Noah comes across as a wry, startled and an sometimes outraged outsider, commenting on the absurdities of American life.
The Daily Show host explains the link he has with the Swaziland in the book titled ‘Born a Crime’.

Reveals

Noah reveals to his readers how awkward it was when he was born because he came out as a very light-skinned baby, contrary to the era of events where his Xhosa mother would be expected to have had relations with a black man, when in actual fact his father is white.  and biracial children like Noah could be taken away from their parents and as a result, the comedian said he spent most of his life in hiding.

“When the doctors pulled me out there was an awkward moment where they said, ‘Huh, that’s a very light-skinned baby.’
A quick scan of the delivery room revealed no man standing around to take credit.
“Who is the father?” they asked, a fragment of the story reads.

Noah elaborates how his mother said that the father was from Swaziland.
“His father is from Swaziland,” my mother said, referring to the tiny, landlocked kingdom in the west of South Africa.
‘‘Noah said it’s this lie that saved him from being taken away to God knows where.

“They probably knew she was lying, but they accepted it because they needed an explanation. Under apartheid, the government labelled everything on your birth certificate: Race, tribe, nationality. Everything had to be categorised.

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