Hannah Pool
Eritrea: Discovering Hannah Pool
Former BBC correspondent Hannah Pool, adopted by an American mother and English father and growing up partly in Norway, finds out at the age of 20 that her birth father and family were still alive.
CBS and ABC Australia ran a couple of stories last year about American families later discovering the children they've adopted from orphanages in Ethiopia still had families.
But Hannah Pool's adoption and reunion story reminds us of Scottish poet Jackie Kay's adoption/reunion story: ... a lesbian-single mother, her birth mother Scottish, father Nigerian, adopted by a couple of Glaswegian communists "who threw the kind of parties where everybody ended up singing Cole Porter and Rabbie Burns songs" and her journey to Nigeria to meet her homophobe dad.