Word: mamboleo
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard College can be lonely and frustrating. Although the continent has more than 30 countries, Westerners tend to lump all of them, from Angola to Zimbabwe into one cultural mass. African students say they sometimes face blatant ignorance of their home countries and Africa as a whole. Dorkus K. Mamboleo '91 says a classmate asked her which part of the United States had a town called Kenya. And Ndiaye says fellow students have asked him, "Do you live in a hut?" and "Do your cousins look like the people on TV from Ethiopia...
...Kenya, chicken is special," Mamboleo says, adding that chicken was once one of her favorite foods. But at the Freshman Union, she says, "every day we have chicken, chicken, chicken" and now she is sick of it. She says she has not sampled the dining service's lasagna, another of her favorite dishes, out of fear that she will lose her love...
...pretty difficult to adjust to the cold," Ndiaye says. "The wind is extremely terrible," Mamboleo says. But Frank W. Okhwatenie, a Kenyan graduate student here on a cultural exchange program, disagrees with their opinions of the Cambridge winter. "You are very lucky in America--you have seasons," he said, "Winter...
...African students said they were wary of becoming overly competitive, but that they feared it might be inevitable. "If I want to survive here, I might get caught up with that [competitiveness]," Mamboleo says...
Ndiaye has chaired a Phillips Brooks House service program for two years and has participated in junior varsity and intramural soccer. He was also a delegate to Harvard's Model United Nations where he was elected best delegate for his country's region. Mamboleo is running track and is a member of the International Relations Council, which teaches high school students about international relations. Okhwatenie is teaching a special class for the East African Folk Song Troupe...