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Immigrant voices: Fowsia Musse Somalia

June 13, 2016

Fowsia Musse knew war from the time she was a small child.  Her family fled violence in Somalia, and she was separated from her mother.  Before she came to the U.S., she made her home in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. She lives and does community development work in Lewiston, ME.

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May 19, 2016

Lewiston, ME

Interviewer: Keith Ludden

Recommended citation: Musse, Fowsia, Oral History Interview, May 19, 2016 by Keith Ludden, Page #, Oral History and Folklife Research. Online: https://www.oralhistoryandfolklife.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/Fowsia-Musse-transcript_8-30-17-1.pdf
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Fowsia Musse knew war from the time she was a small child.  Her family fled violence in Somalia, and she was separated from her mother.  Before she came to the U.S., she made her home in a refugee camp in Ethiopia. She lives and does community development work in Lewiston, ME.

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