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Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks On-Demand 10/19/07

The Somali Bantu Community Making Their Way in Maine

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Not all of the Somali refugees who've come to Maine in the past few years share the same culture. About 500 of them belong to a group of rural farmers who were persecuted as second-class citizens in Somalia. They are called the Somali Bantu. Most lived in villages without running water or electricity, and many are illiterate in their own language. On this week's Maine Watch with Jennifer Rooks, we'll meet members of the Somali Bantu community, and follow them as they try to make their way in a new culture. Also, a conversation with Colby College anthropologist Catherine Besteman, an expert on the Somali Bantu, who lived in a Bantu village in Africa before the violence erupted.

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The extended interview with with Colby College anthropologist Catherine Besteman

 

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