COLUMBIA — It’s a Friday evening, but school isn’t over for Niyonzima Etienne. The 18-year-old simply shifts from his role as student — a junior at Rock Bridge High School — to teacher. Etienne holds regular English classes in his living room for other refugees from his family’s native Burundi, one of the poorest countries in the world.
African refugees build community in Columbia
Sunday, June 7, 2009 | 12:00 a.m. CDT
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