Interview with Abigail Unuakhalu, November 11, 2015
Project: African Immigrants in the Bluegrass Oral History Project
Interview Summary
Abigail Unuakhalu met and married her husband when he visited her birthplace of Lagos, Nigeria. Already a professor at Kentucky State University, he brought her to Frankfort two years later, in 1997. She arrived with an Economics degree and transferred enough credits to complete a degree in Accounting, and then get increasingly more responsible jobs in state government. She and her husband have three children whom they have taken to visit their families in Nigeria twice. Abigail talks about adjusting to small town life after bustling Lagos with the help of Nigerian and American friends, and educating children at school's Global Village Day about Nigeria. She is proud of Nigerians as hard-working immigrants in the United States.Interview Accession
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Unuakhalu, Abigail Interview by Angene Wilson. 11 Nov. 2015. Lexington, KY: Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
Unuakhalu, A. (2015, November 11). Interview by A. Wilson. African Immigrants in the Bluegrass Oral History Project. Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries, Lexington.
Unuakhalu, Abigail, interview by Angene Wilson. November 11, 2015, African Immigrants in the Bluegrass Oral History Project, Louie B. Nunn Center for Oral History, University of Kentucky Libraries.
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