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Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Wilderness African Alaskans

Posted by Charles Mudede on Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 8:30 AM

For Care Bear:

The African population in Anchorage, according to Peter Igwacho, a psychologist by training also originally from Cameroon, is now likely somewhere between 3,000-5,000 people, though no formal count has been made. Growth has been driven both by refugee resettlement, which has brought Sudanese and Somali communities to the city, as well as migrants seeking economic opportunity and a quiet place to raise a family, Igwacho said. They often come from cities in the Lower 48 to join family members already living in Alaska.

Many don't regard their stay in Alaska as temporary, Atu-Tetuh said.

"We are here to make Alaska our home."

Walmart has recognized the needs of the growing community and now sells plantains.

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way to torture them, dept. of immigration. send them to anchorage, minneapolis, seattle. climates utterly unlike the ones they lived in.

Posted by Max Solomon on August 21, 2012 at 9:36 AM

The last place I would expect to find Africans would be in Alaska, or maybe Siberia.

Posted by floater on August 21, 2012 at 11:36 AM

@1,

How is USCIS responsible?

Posted by keshmeshi on August 21, 2012 at 11:46 AM

They haven't reached Southeast yet. I can't even imagine African immigrants in Southeast Alaska. Or how the redneck fishermen would react.

But yay for plantains! Those things are delish.

Posted by care bear on August 21, 2012 at 12:57 PM