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Djenabou
"Is no war in Guinea, but our President is un dictateur. It is very dangerous...there are soldiers…they can kill you... rape you...take everything from you. We had to leave; because they raped my sister. She was 12 years old. They take everything from us. They are looking for somebody who are smart; who go to school...because if you have money they think you going to have power. You know, to talk to people and people are going to listen to you. They going to put into jail. My Dad, before he died, he stayed eight years to the jail. And he don’t have fingernail. No, they took them. He don’t has collarbone. Because they put …handcuffs in [collarbone] to hold him in jail…" |
Djenabou was born in the mid 1970s in Conakry, the coastal capital of Guinea in West Africa. But her grandmother raised her in the country along the border of Mali. After completing her college degree in economics, she had to flee for safety. She came to Pennsylvania in 2002. She braids hair for a living while studying English in school.