Yeah, so after my grandpa kicked us out of his place, we went to a Berkeley shelter right in the back of the Berkeley Police Department. You mentioned you were homeless for a while after you first got to California? 6 of them passed away in the war, and now she has 6 left. I was like, damn near not even supposed to be here. So a soldier came over to her and told her to go back in the house, and she was like, “Well, I’m about to have my son, so if you’re going to kill me, you’re going to kill him, or you’re going to take me to this midwife’s house.” So he basically helped her to get there and then I was born. You don’t know who’s who, it could be an enemy or a friend and won’t know. My mom went into labor with me during curfew so if you go outside during curfew, you’re liable to get shot by anybody. They were snatching people’s kids, killing people, and I was actually born during the war, so there was a curfew. I have a four year old daughter.īut anyway, from what my mom said, there was like two different parts of our country fighting and it was just bad. Sorry, I also have a daughter, I forgot to mention that. Hold on my baby momma’s calling me, let me tell her I’m doing this with you. Then my mom got a boyfriend and he kicked her out, so we’ve been homeless for a lot of our lives. She never really told me too much else, but my grandpa stayed out here, so he helped us with our visa to get out to California, and we stayed with him in West Oakland for a few months after we got here. When the war broke out he basically helped her get to a boat to where she could get to a plane to come all the way out here. He was from Guinea-Bissau and he was a peace keeper, so he came to Liberia to try and help out the situation, and I guess they met each other when the war broke out. I never really knew my dad, but my mom always told me that’s how she met my dad. I guess it was a feud between two different regions of our country, so it was either you pick sides or you try to stay out of it, but if you’re staying out of it you’re still basically in it. What have your parents told you about the war? Were you in serious danger?
We’ve always been in Oakland, California since then, for over 20 years now. We got to New York first, we had to switch planes in New York to come to California. There was a war, a civil war in Liberia so I was born in ’92 and we left and got to America in ’94. What’s up, Tamba? This is your first interview, so let’s start off with the basics.
0 kommentar(er)
