Ep. #33 Angola with Lucrecia and Marcelina DaSilva: Long Journey to Peace

Stories of New Americans Podcast with Ron Klutho on NewsTalkSTL

Ron Klutho talks to Lucrecia and Marcelina DaSilva from Angola

MUSIC: Esperança · Yola Semedo

Next week Ron will talk with Daniel Thang Pui about Burma!

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0:00 SEG 1 slave trade in the 1600's | cotton gold and diamonds | they said they had no apartheid but that's not true | the school was in Portuguese | what was school like | Catholic school | no running water | jobs after school | teaching at missionary schools | married | coup started

16:44 SEG 2 struggling to get independence | 3 political parties | what made her family leave | witnessed executions | going from Angola to Namibia | South African military was helping refugees | escaping on a bus | going to a refugee camp and sleeping in a tent with other families for 2 years | rations in the refugee camp | living day to day

33:35 SEG 3 being considered stateless when born as a refugee | nobody spoke English | driving the length of Namibia in a blue pickup truck with 6 kids in the back in order to get to Botswana to stay in a refugee camp | coming to America in 1990 | trying to learn English while in a refugee camp | watching American movies and going to the library | coming to St. Louis in February was a shock | was taken to an apartment and didn't know how to turn on the heat | starting school in America | all the houses looked the same | 2 bedroom apartment for the 8 of them | going to school in flip flops in the winter | things started to fall in place once they found their church community | going back to Angola to visit | keeping Angolan culture alive | best and worst parts of living in America