Knowing the Pain of the Displaced - Ugochi Daniels - IOM
Awake At Night
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What Was Your Childhood Like?
I grew up in Sweden, the US and Canada. My parents are both professors so they really wanted me to explore. I remember being very happy, being outdoors a lot. But I knew I was different; I just couldn't understand why. And then we visit Nigeria. We came back to Nigeria, but only for a year because then the Civil War broke out. They had to flee middle of the night,. took a boat, the whole shebang, and ended up in the US. So you were actually a refugee? Yeah. How old were you? So I would have been about six years old. What do you remember from that, from fleeing? So what I remember is not
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