Concrete Pastures: From Mongu, Zambia To NYC

콘크리트 목초지| Nancy Mulemwa Siisii ‘s Story: Episode 29 (2022)

Being an immigrant is not always gold. — Nancy (2022)

In this episode, Nancy Mulemwa is our guest, and we have a conversation centered around immigration and life as a dreamer. A woman was born and raised in an African country called Zambia; she later migrated to America and settled in New York, where she has lived for the past 20 years.

She narrates how she grew up and how her childhood, in so many ways, influenced who she wanted to become and what she wanted to do with her life. She grew up in the rural parts of her country and her mother and grandmother, both entrepreneurial, did business to get her and her siblings by.

She went to boarding school, where she learned many life skills, one key being independence and learning to fend for herself. Most of her lessons were by trial and error and observation. She often accompanied…