Episodes 14
Avg. Duration 3m
Activity Dormant
Since Nov 2025
Latest Episode Nov 2025

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Schedule
Hourly
Format
Episodic
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feeds.transistor.fm

About This Podcast

A series of reflections about immigration, life in Minnesota, and parenting from the perspectives of parents an grandparents from African immigrant community in East Grand Forks Minnesota.

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Deka's Story

Nov 26, 2025 19m

Deka Ali lives in the northwestern town of East Grand Forks Minnesota.   As a Somali immigrant, interpreter and community organizer, she has gained the respect of her rural community for bringing…

Mohamed's Story

Nov 25, 2025 7m

Mohamed Yusaf engaged youth of his community in a light-hearted, fast-moving conversation among Somali and Arabic-speaking community members who weave together jokes, memories, and references to…

Rashida's Story

Nov 25, 2025 2m

Rashida's Story represents a short interview between two generations of Somali women as they reflect on their experiences as immigrants balancing faith, community life, and the challenges of building…

Anav's Story

Nov 25, 2025 1m

Anav Ahmed is mother, health worker and Somali immigrant who migrated from the country of Kenya to East Grand Forks Minnesota in 2008.  She shared some of her story with her daughter Najma Ahmed as…

Your Mother Is Your Wall

Nov 24, 2025 1m

One story that happened to me when I was sixteen years old. We were a group of young kids fooling around. We all do that. We get in trouble. Actually, we went to the Perkins and I did tell this story…

Refugee Camp

Nov 24, 2025 1m

So we fled to Kenya, which is a neighbor to Somalia. So we went there. You have to go through in a lot of process in order to get to the United States. So it's not like that. Oh, I'm just going to…

On My Own

Nov 24, 2025 1m

Basically. I grew up by myself. I have to figure out everything by myself. You can imagine being a fourteen year old because my oldest son and I, we only thirteen years apart, and a parent to myself,…

My Sister

Nov 24, 2025 1m

My sister was amazing. She was really amazing woman. She had so much responsibility on herself because she was the oldest out of the eight children, and all of them were younger than her. And you can…

My Mother

Nov 24, 2025 3m

My mom was a really well-educated woman, and she was an educational system like me. She used to provide families who were in need with clothing, books and donate all that stuff. So when the civil war…

Learning Our Language

Nov 24, 2025 1m

I like it here in East Grand Forks because it's very small town and there's not a lot of cars. There's not a lot of hustle here. That's why I like here. I remember one of my sister friend were here a…

High School

Nov 24, 2025 0m

When I had my first child. I was only thirteen years old at that time, and I want to be a really good role model for him. I want to be a really good example for him, and I want my kids to look, you…

Being A Mother

Nov 24, 2025 0m

And I went to her being a mother and graduating college, and never being a criminal, never did a drugs myself. So basically, I am amazing mother to my kids. And they are amazing kids. But I pushed…

Balancing

Nov 24, 2025 1m

American culture is a really, challenging and you know, that, as being a child in America and you want to keep your original culture because that's the expectation for your parents. So you have to do…

A New Culture

Nov 24, 2025 2m

I came from a very small town in Kenya. Mainly it was the refugee camp. So there are so many different because there's there's no light, there's not a lot of cars. And when we, get here, United…

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Our Somali Community has published 14 episodes since November 2025, covering topics in Documentary, Relationships.

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Our Somali Community is currently dormant with new episodes hourly. Average episode length is 3m.

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