Hikmah Abodunrin Oral History
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
- Khan, Arbesh (Interviewer, Person)
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
- Khan, Arbesh (Interviewer, Person)
- Hai, Reshad (Interviewer, Person)
- Abodunrin, Hikmah (Interviewee, Person)
- 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
Queens College Library, CUNY
Benjamin Rosenthal Library RO317
65-30 Kissena Boulevard
Flushing 11367 USA us
QC.Archives@qc.cuny.edu