In this episode we hear the story of a freshman film major at the University of Kansas whose parents are both from Cameroon. We explore the themes of home, and the connection that children of immigrants feel to the home country of their parents.
Photograph of plantains by Yemisi Ogbe, distributed under a CC BY-SA 4.0 license. The music that plays in the beginning and end is Arid Foothills by Kevin Macleod and was licensed through Creative Commons. His music can be found on Incompetech.com.
In this episode we hear the story of a software developer from Sudan. We explore the themes of hope, discrimination, and what it’s like to leave a country that you love.
Photograph of a Cessna 172 by FlugKerl2, distributed under a CC BY-SA 3.0 license. The music that plays in the beginning and end is Arid Foothills by Kevin Macleod and was licensed through Creative Commons. His music can be found on Incompetech.com.
In this episode we hear the story of an engineer and father from Morocco. We explore the themes of why people choose to leave home, and how having children affects your perspective.
Photograph of Kenitra in Morocco by Hakim Dahoune, distributed in the public domain. The music that plays in the beginning and end is Arid Foothills by Kevin Macleod and was licensed through Creative Commons. His music can be found on Incompetech.com.
Iman Al Hassan was born in Columbia, MO and raised primarily in Kansas City, Missouri, but is a “generational immigrant” who maintains strong cultural ties back to Nigeria, where both of her parents were born. She is also the author of Unrequited, a collection of poetry that voices stories of love, loss, the struggles of family and of cross-cultural differences through the journey to self-actualization of the second generation American, Muslim author.
Bhaa Elashkar was born and raised in Shawnee Mission, Kansas, but maintains strong ties back to Egypt, where his parents were born, as well as to the United Arab Emirates, where he worked and met his wife.
Henry Lubega, a native of Uganda, came to the United States after escaping from a rebel group that forced him to fight on their behalf in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Mpho Kekana grew up in post-apartheid South Africa before moving to Maryville, Missouri. He tells the story of his first encounters with overt racism when his family moved from an all black township into an all white suburban neighborhood.