Tamara Kamara
Ensemble
Steiger
Blog One
By name is Tamara Kamara, I
am a double major in Theatre Arts and in French at the University of
Louisville. I am African. I was born in Sierra Leone west Africa and came to America
when i was eight years old. Sierra Leone was colonized by Europeans making our
national language English and our official language Krio.Sierra Leone's
government is a constitutional democracy. As I never lived with my parents I do
not know everything about my heritage or my immediate families culture, but
growing up in an African household i know a lot about my family and my home. My
parents are from two different tribes in Africa, generally tribes do not get
along or marry outside their tribes. I left Sierra Leone when I was four years old
due to the blood diamond war. I moved to Guinea for a year and then moved to
Senegal where I stayed until i was eight years old. Life in America is very
different from life in Africa but culturally, it is still the same. I grew up
muslim and remember going to the mosque every friday and celebrating ramadan. I
still eat the food and remember the big celebratory meals we had during
gatherings and celebrations.
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