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Out of Africa

By AAN Staff
august 29, 2003  03:10 pm
Out of Africa
When thousands of Somali and Sudanese refugees made their way to the American Midwest in the 1990s, they were often hailed as success stories. Starting at the bottom of the economic ladder, they worked double shifts in menial jobs and carved out lives for themselves and their families, thankful just to have the opportunity -- and to be safe from the violence that plagued their war-torn homelands. But as Pitch staff writer Kendrick Blackwood reports, the Somalis and Sudanese brought something with them besides a tireless work ethic: a culture in which young men are taught never to back away from a fight.
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