America Here I Come: A Somali Refugee\'s Quest for Hope brings you the moving story of Hamse Warfa.
He also is an expert in peacebuilding serving as a board and executive committ.
Today, Hamse serves as an advisor to philanthropy working with foundations.
Rather, it is a living proof that with persistence you can conquer the tallest barriers standing between you and your success.
This book is not an appeal for pity.
Certainly, Hamse is no longer the naive boy of mixed identity he was close to 20 years ago when he first landed in the United States.
Currently, Hamse is pursuing his doctoral degree in Public Administration at Hamline University.
He earns a bachelor\'s degree in Political Science from San Diego State University, and later Masters of Science in Organizational Management & Leadership from Springfield College.
But he confronts the language barrier and eventually gets the breakthrough he has always yearned for.
Hamse talks of his struggle with education, partly for the feeling of alienation that he suffers in a foreign land, and second due to his poor language skills.
Hamse\'s personal story is helpful for Americans to understand their neighbors (New Americans) and the intricate web of global affairs that often lead people to seek refuge in distant lands.
Hamse is determined to make an honest and meaningful existence, and he openly shares what really goes on in the back of an immigrant\'s mind throughout the process..
The cultural shocks that Hamse faces in the new land of opportunity are as funny as they are thought-provoking.
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The book is candid about the kind of challenges that new immigrants face seeking education and integration in the U.
The author takes us back to his difficult life as a refugee in the camps in Kenya and the trials of adapting to life as a New American.
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It is a heartrending narration of his escape from a civil war that ultimately claimed the lives of more than two million people in Somalia to his becoming a leading light Here in the U.
America Here I Come: A Somali Refugee\'s Quest for Hope brings you the moving story of Hamse Warfa
