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Amjambo Africa! (April 2018) University of Southern Maine USM Digital Commons Amjambo Africa! Items From the Collection 4-2018 Amjambo Africa! (April 2018) Kathreen Harrison Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/samgen_amjambo Part of the Adult and Continuing Education Commons, Africana Studies Commons, African History Commons, African Languages and Societies Commons, African Studies Commons, Bilingual, Multilingual, and Multicultural Education Commons, Critical and Cultural Studies Commons, Cultural History Commons, Digital Humanities Commons, Diplomatic History Commons, Gender, Race, Sexuality, and Ethnicity in Communication Commons, Genealogy Commons, International and Intercultural Communication Commons, Journalism Studies Commons, Language Interpretation and Translation Commons, Nonfiction Commons, Other American Studies Commons, Other French and Francophone Language and Literature Commons, Other History Commons, Poetry Commons, Public History Commons, Social History Commons, United States History Commons, and the Women's History Commons Recommended Citation Harrison, Kathreen, "Amjambo Africa! (April 2018)" (2018). Amjambo Africa!. 1. https://digitalcommons.usm.maine.edu/samgen_amjambo/1 This Book is brought to you for free and open access by the Items From the Collection at USM Digital Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Amjambo Africa! by an authorized administrator of USM Digital Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. APRIL, 2018 VOL. 1 / NO. 1 WELCOMETOAMJAMBOAFRICA! t Gratui BIENVENUE À AMJAMBO AFRICA! || BBuurrue FFrreeee KARIBU KWA AMJAMBO AFRICA! u ubunt Y MURAKAZE KURI AMJAMBO AFRICA! Amjambo Africa! Is Ladder to the Moon Network’s freemonthly newspaper. Oneof theprimary goals of the newspaper is to empower Maine’s African immigrant community by presenting the information immigrants OUR MISSION need in languages they can understand. Ladder to the Moon Network believesthatinformationisakeytoun- derstanding; understanding is a key to knowledge; knowledge is a key to life. Welcome to Amjambo Africa! Welcome to Amjambo Africa! WeareMaine’s freenewspaperfor and 9ere’s a common saying in Lingala: “Kozanga koyeba iza liwa ya ndambo ( thelack of information is a small about New Mainers from Sub-Saharan Africa. death).”At present access to information by some of Maine’s African immigrant community is very limited due Amjambo Africa! is here to help New Mainers to the barrier of language. Many newcomers express deep concern about their inability to keep up with impor- thriveand to help Mainewelcomeand bene;tfrom our new tant news and information as a result of their struggles with English. 9ey want to know what is going on in their neighbors. communities and the greater world. 9ey want to contribute to their communities. 9ey need access, in lan- guages they can understand, to information about schools, health care, employment, government, ;nancial and Amjambo Africa! will serve as a conduit of infor- market systems, and transportation. At present information is available almost exclusively in English. Amjambo mation for newcomersas theynavigatelifein Maine. Africa! hopes to change that so African immigrants can make educated decisions for themselves and their families. Amjambo Africa!will includebackground articles about Africa so thosefrom Mainecan understand why new- Language learning takes a long time and requires great e:ort and too o<en immigrants live in completely iso- comers have arrived here. latedlinguistic communities. Despitethework of a widearray of organizations that havedoneincrediblework to bridgelanguagebarriersfor immigrants, many familiesstrugglewith speaking and reading English. 9ereare Amjambo Africa!will pro;lesuccessful New considerablenumbersof immigrants living in Mainewho havebeenherefor morethan a decadeyetstill havea Mainersfrom Sub-Saharan Africa in orderto givehopeto very basic level when it comes to speaking and reading English. Many classes teach survival English, which is a those newly arrived as well as make clear the bene;ts to our stateof welcoming newcomers. low levelof English, and many immigrants aretoo busy working long hours to beableto continueEnglish classes for long. Amjambo Africa!will shareon theground news updates from contributors living in Africa now. Linguistically-isolated immigrants cannot ;nd information through the mainstream media and so depend on word of mouth, becoming second hand information consumers, subject to misinformation and to the limits of relying on others. To help the immigrant community access a full range of information and become ;rsthand information consumers, Ladder to the Moon Network will help African immigrants through our monthly c newspaper, written in some of the common languages Africans can easily understand. Wewill begin with Swahili, French,Kinyarwanda, and English. Wehopeto add additional languagesas wematureas a newspaper. Oneof themoreshocking experiencesfor immigrants in their process of integration hereis thelack of newsfrom back home in the main stream American media. Immigrant communities are homesick for this news and Am- jambo Africa! will bea trustworthy source.Our From the Ground updates willshedlightonrecenthappenings Special country by country. Our ;rst issue will represent just a few countries, however in subsequent issues, as our ca- pacity grows, wewill add morecountriesto our From theGround updates. Opportunity: A second important goal of Amjambo Africa! is strengthening communication with local Maine communities. Wewant to help local peopleunderstand why others from thefar endof theworld havemovednear them– what pushed them out of their homes. Wewant to help explain that, when they see an unknown bird in their neigh- Become a Founding Sponsor borhood, there has to be a good reason why it’s there! or a Founding Supporter. Wewant locals to know that it hurts to beaway from your motherland, and that onceyou havelost your home, Your business or personal you lose great hope and comfort, and it takes many years to recover these. Peace and love are what all human- name will be listed in the ity seeks. At birth weall wish that theenvironment weareborn into will o:erthecomfort weneed, but when it doesn’t - when war or famine or persecution threaten us - it is natural that those who are able to do so, migrate masthead. in search of a newhome.9efactors that causetheneedfor migration arevery unpredictable,and no onehas any guaranteethat heor shewill neverhaveto facedisplacement at somepoint in life. See the Advertising Section Amjambo Africa! seeks to inform local Mainers about the reasons they have new neighbors. We also want to onpage2formoredetails! illuminatethecultural and economic bene;ts Mainereaps from theseNewMainers. Amjambo Africa! is thenewspaperof Ladderto theMoon Network. Wearea memberof MIRC, which is the MaineImmigrant Rights Coalition. Wevaluepartnerships and collaboration with otherorganizations. 2 amjambo africa! amjambo africa! FROM THE GROUND Ladder to the Moon Network PO BOX 10379, Portland ME 04104 Burundi ~ Maine has seen a growing number of Burun- Uganda ~ Uganda is an eastern country bordered by Tel: 207-553-2525 dian refugees in the past five years. e Kenya, Rwanda, South Sudan, DR Congo, Fax : 207-553-2526 most recent civil war started in 1993 fol- and Tanzania. Uganda experienced civil war lowing the assassination of President-elect from the time of Idi Amin until 1986, when Publisher and Editor: Melchior Ndadaye Since then hundreds of the current president assumed power. Georges Budagu Makoko thousands of people have died because of continuing conflict Uganda has a refugee camp called Nakivale which was founded in 1959. Some people have lived their entire lives in this camp – [email protected] and many others have fled to neighboring countries or abroad. they were born there, married there, had children there, and are Most of these refugees are housed in vast, inadequately re- still there. is past summer the rations for refugees were re- Managing Editor: sourced refugee camps in neighboring African countries. ey duced by the UNHRC, which cited a worldwide food crisis. Kathreen Harrison live in tents, makeshi lean-to’s, or tin sheds. ey receive food Bidi Bidi in Uganda is the world’s largest refugee camp. Most rations monthly. Disease and hunger run rampant – malaria, [email protected] refugees at Bidi Bidi are from South Sudan. As of September cholera, widespread malnutrition. In 2015 elections were held in 2017 the camp housed 285,00 people. e Lord’s Resistance Burundi but the president clung to power fraudulently. A civil Army, a Ugandan rebel movement notorious for abducting chil- Graphic Design: uprising followed, with more killings and refugees fleeing. For- dren to serve in their army, is active in Uganda and is spreading Warner Graphics eign aid from many countries was cut in protest at the illegal into DR Congo, in Northern Kivu Province. Ugandans speak elections. Some of these displaced, traumatized people have been English and Swahili and a wide variety of regional languages and All contents copyright 2018. All rights reserved. able to make it out of the camps across the ocean to us here in dialects. Printed in Maine. America. ose who have made it to Maine are survivors. ey are strong people, who against all odds overcame great adversity Rwanda ~ Rwanda is a very small, densely populated and made it to safety. Burundians speak Kirundi, French, and country with an area of 10,169 square miles. some Swahili. English is
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