E51: Helen Agbonison feels more at home in Canada than in Nigeria

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Join us as we explore the bitter-sweet world of the immigrant.

In this episode, I’m speaking with Helen Agbonison, founder of Africans & African Descendants in St. Albert.

Where is home? Your place of birth? Or where you feel loved and at peace?

I prefer to think it’s the latter.

And for Helen, it's the same. She's never felt a strong attachment to any place, but since moving to St Albert, she's found her calling. Her home. Her community.

In this conversation, Helen and I chat about moving to Canada 14 years ago, using Yahoo Answers to find friends in Canada as she and her family prepped for the big move. We also chat about:

* What it felt like to move to Canada 14 years ago

* Why St. Albert is HOME

* Why African immigrants struggle to integrate

* Why she launched the Africans & Africans Descendants in St. Albert community, and more.

It was so good to hear her talk about all the work the community is doing to preserve the African culture.

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👌🏽Learn more about Africans & Africans Descendants in St. Albert

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