Skip to main content

Hikmah Abodunrin Oral History

 File
Identifier: QMP-0037

Scope and Contents

In this interview, Hikmah Abodunrin discusses how she grew up in three different places: Nigeria as a young girl, Brooklyn with her immigrant family, and then South Jamaica, Queens; developing a sense of camaraderie with neighbors in Brooklyn and Queens as kids of immigrants; reminiscing about a school trip to a farmer’s market where she did not know the difference between organic and nonorganic foods, purchasing ingredients, and making a soup with friends; middle school at IS 238 in Queens, wearing a uniform, and studying drama; attending John Bowne High School and the Doshi program; choosing Queens College and her major of neuroscience; her dreams of helping underprivileged people and to build a hospital in Nigeria. She also talks about her family, including four siblings; having her bike stolen repeatedly in Brooklyn; Nigerian culture and continuing practicing it in the United States, including the dispersal of household chores and eating foods like pounded yams and jollof rice; speaking Yoruba with her family; celebrating Muslim holidays like Eid and the traditional celebrations at her mosque in Coney Island; her observations about that changing area of Brooklyn; the friendships she has made in the Queens College Muslim Students Association.

Dates

  • 2016-04-19

Creator

Access

This oral history is open for research. Media files and transcript can be viewed and/or requested through the Queens Memory Project on Aviary: https://queenslibrary.aviaryplatform.com/collections/105/collection_resources/10052. For help using the site, contact QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu.

Conditions Governing Use

Interview shared under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Users are free to share or adapt the material for non-commercial purposes, as long as they meet the terms of the license. See license details at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/.

Biographical / Historical

Hikmah Abodunrin is a Queens resident and Nigerian immigrant studying neuroscience at Queens College.

Extent

1 Digital Files ; 00:59:20

Language of Materials

English

Abstract

Hikmah Abdunrin gives an oral history interview to Arbesh Khan and Reshad Hai in April 2016 as part of the Queens Memory Project.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Donated to Queens College and Queens Public Library by Reshad Hai, Arbesh Khan, and Hikman Abodunrin in April 2016.

Physical Description

One MP3 file totaling 59 minutes in duration.

Processing Information

Oral history conducted as part of the Queens Memory Project (http://queensmemory.org), a collaborative program of the Queens Public Library and Queens College to collect stories, images, and other evidence of life in the borough of Queens.

Creator

Author
Caitlin Colban-Waldron
Description rules
Describing Archives: A Content Standard
Language of description
English
Script of description
Latin

Repository Details

Part of the Queens College (New York, N.Y.) Special Collections and Archives Repository

Contact:
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us