Mengistu Kuwa - History Harvest Minute

Mengistu Kuwa - History Harvest Minute

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Hello, and welcome to today's History Harvest Minute. In this History Harvest Minute, we explore stories from around the nation, collected by students and community history harvesters. Today we travel to Lincoln, Nebraska, where Mengistu Kuwa shared a portrait of his father, a high ranking leader in the SPLA, located in the Nuba Mountains. Mengistu Kuwa is Sudanese but because of conflict in Sudan, he was born in Ethiopia and spent most of his childhood in Kenya before coming to Lincoln. Showing off a bright smile, similar to the one in the portrait of his father, it is hard to believe Mengistu was raised in a time of unrelenting violence. Mengistu says the key to his outlook on life is due to the teachings of his role models, most importantly his father, who taught him to fight for freedom and to help others. Mengistu Kuwa: "People are always gon' be people. No matter the skin pigment, no matter, um, how they look like, and always always, give a hand, cos we never know who we gon' run into and when we're gonna fall. Cos that's just, just, human nature; we're made to love each other and work together to move ahead." That's all for today's History Harvest Minute. For more information on this item and others like it, please visit www.historyharvest.unl.edu.

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