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‘For me, education was not a luxury; it was a lifeline’

Kentwood — Mulonge Kalumbula remembers when he first arrived in West Michigan in the late 1980s, when he and his family fled civil unrest in the Democratic Republic of Congo.  It was April and the trees were bare; the 12-year-old Kalumbula thought they were burned until his new classmates told him they would soon grow new leaves. He saw snow for the first time, marveling at the fluffy white stuff until he touched it. “I got frostbite and I was l…
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