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Boadu, Mary, Bronx African American History Project
Boadu, Mary, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison, Jane Edward
INTERVIEWEE: Mary Boadu
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Mary Boadu was born in Koumase, the Ashanti region of Ghana in 1988. At the time of the interview, was a student at Columbia University. When she was three years old, Mary’s mother got the chance to work in a nursing home in the United States, and she left her family in Ghana. Mary was raised by her father and cousins until 1995, when her father got the opportunity to join her mother in the States. Mary’s mother was pregnant when she left Ghana, and she gave birth …
Bonsu, Sonia, Bronx African American History Project
Bonsu, Sonia, Bronx African American History Project
Oral Histories
INTERVIEWER: Mark Naison, Jane Edward
INTERVIEWEE: Sonia Bonsu
SUMMARY BY: Patrick O’Donnell
Sonia Bonsu was born in the Bronx on March 16, 1977. She attended public school in the Bronx, then the Calhoun School in Manhattan, and Harvard University as an undergraduate. She then attended law school at Fordham University, and she is currently the Director of Annual Giving at the Calhoun School. She was raised by both her parents, who were Ghanaian immigrants (Ashanti people). Her father had come to the Bronx in 1969 on a student visa for a job and brought his wife with him shortly thereafter. …