Interview with Mulbah Zowah, December 24, 2013

Interview Summary

Mulbah Zowah of Liberia describes primary school starting in the village, moving to a larger town, and finally driven by war to the capital Monrovia to finish secondary school. He provides a dramatic description of escaping Liberia by ship to Ghana during the war, leaving as a refugee and going back to Liberia several times to work on university education. He tells how he found Berea College on Google, got a scholarship, and traveled 40 days through three countries to get a U.S. visa. He provides details of being welcomed in Berea, early difficulties, and success in the nursing program using his Liberian hospital experience and information from his midwife mother. He graduated from Berea in 2009 and is a nurse in Kentucky.

Interview Keyword

Berea College Childhood Education Immigrants Lofa Loma Midwifery Nursing Monrovia Refugee University of Kentucky Voinjama War Nurses

Interview LC Subject

Africa Ghana Liberia

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