• Title
  Hakiza Mushapa Blaise oral history interview by Louise Whelan
• Creator
  Louise Whelan, 1967-
• Level of description
  fonds
• Date
  
  7 August 2020
• Type of material
  Nonmusical Sound Recordings, Oral Histories
• Reference code
  9657969
• Physical Description
  1 audio file (1 hr.) - digital, WAV, stereo (48 kHz, 24 bit)
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Hakiza Mushapa Blaise was born in the Province of South Kivu in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Due to ongoing conflict, Blaise moved with his family to Kenya, then fled to Nairobi, before being resettled in Australia as refugees. Blaise, his wife and their five children were the first family of a Congolese community that moved to the regional town of Cowra, NSW, made possible by a regional settlement program run by the Great Lakes Agency for Peace and Development in Sydney. Blaise is a community leader in the Congolese community in Cowra, and works as a disability support worker.
  
  Louise Whelan is an established oral historian and award-winning photographer who has conducted a wide range of interviews for the Library relating to cultural and social history and contemporary life in New South Wales.
  
  Reference:
  Library correspondence file
• Scope and Content
  In this interview Blaise talks about his life growing up in The Congo where he studied a degree in community development and his dairy farming heritage. He discusses his decision to flee the violence in The Congo with his family, his experiences as a refugee, and his resettlement in Australia, and ultimately Cowra. He discusses the support Congolese families have received from the people of Cowra and his role as a community leader in the Congolese community of Cowra. Blaise also reflects on the impact of COVID-19 and the difficulty of working during the lockdowns.
• Copying Conditions
  In copyright:
  Copyright holder:: State Library of New South Wales
  Please acknowledge:: Mitchell Library, State Library of New South Wales
• General note
  
  Recorded at Cowra, NSW, on 7 August 2020.
• Creator/Author/Artist
  Mushapa Blaise, Hakiza
  
• Subject
  Mushapa Blaise, Hakiza--Interviews.
  Refugees--Congo (Democratic Republic)--Interviews.
  Immigrants--Australia--Interviews.
  Refugees--Australia--Interviews.
  Immigrants--New South Wales--Social conditions.
  Refugees--New South Wales--Social conditions.
  
• Place
  Cowra (N.S.W.)
  
• Open Rosetta viewer
  IE20474948

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