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Immigrant voices: Alain Nahimana Burundi

June 13, 2016

 

Alain Nahimana fled ethnic violence and likely imprisonment in Burundi, where his father served as an ambassador.  He now does advocacy work and heads the Maine Immigrant Rights Coalition.

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 March 25 2016

Portland, ME

Interviewer: Keith Ludden

Recommended citation: Nahimana, Alain, Oral History Interview, March 25, 2016 by Keith Ludden, Page #, Oral History and Folklife Research. Online: https://www.oralhistoryandfolklife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Nahimana-.pdf

Permission to quote from this transcript must be obtained from Oral History and Folklife Research. Please contact OHFR for further information.

Description: Alain Nahimana immigrated to the U.S. from Burundi. He is the son of a Burundian diplomat, and spent some of his school years in Switzerland.

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