Summary
A boy from the Democratic Republic of Congo moves to Boston with his family after living through harrowing civil unrest. As he struggles in his new reality, a drumming teacher steps in and helps him find his identity.
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| 0:00.0 | Produced by the I Lab at W-B-U-R, Boston. |
| 0:07.0 | Welcome to Kind World. |
| 0:11.0 | I'm Yasmein Ammer. |
| 0:12.0 | And I'm Andrea Aswahad. Yasminmer. And I'm Andrea Aswah. |
| 0:14.0 | Yasmin, you and I have spoken before about our musical backgrounds. |
| 0:18.0 | Yep, I played clarinet in the marching band in high school and I loved it. |
| 0:21.0 | And I also played Barry in the jazz band. |
| 0:23.5 | And I've played violin and sung in choirs as far back as I can remember and I think we both |
| 0:28.7 | understand how music can make a big difference in a life, especially when you're young. |
| 0:34.0 | So I want to share this story with you that shows just how powerful music can be. 28-year-old Jonathan Munde can still remember the smallest details of growing up in the Democratic |
| 0:50.5 | Republic of Congo. There was a moment sitting on my father's lap looking into the sky, |
| 1:00.0 | a light passing by and telling my dad I remember this vividly I told him I thought it was a |
| 1:07.6 | shooting star and he told me that it wasn't. Now Jonathan understands that the light was probably a flare or an |
| 1:17.0 | explosive device. These moments of innocence, haunted by a sense of danger, were present throughout his childhood. |
| 1:25.0 | Jonathan was born in 1991, into a conflicted region at a turbulent time. |
| 1:31.0 | The war involves huge numbers of soldiers on all sides, |
| 1:35.0 | and those who've suffered most are the civilian population. |
| 1:38.0 | The soldiers came to our village, looted our house, |
| 1:41.0 | taking money and other belongings, and the soldiers killed people here in our village. |
| 1:47.0 | Neighbouring Rwanda was locked in a brutal battle that bled into Congo. |
| 1:51.0 | Instability plagued the nation. Jonathan was a child bearing witness. |
| 1:57.0 | I saw people dead and what they used to do was they would put people on tires, their heads in tires, and light them up on fire. |
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