Adem Bunkeddeko

Jun 26, 2024 | vitalcitynyc.org | Adem Bunkeddeko |Asad Dandia |Jennifer Egan |Avi Schick

By Adem BunkeddekoI have a bond and love for New York that is sometimes difficult to capture in words. I am the son of refugees who fled Uganda’s civil war during the early 1980s in pursuit of sanctuary and a better life in the city. From the ashes of turmoil, my parents would plant seeds of hope in a rent-stabilized one-bedroom dwelling in Queens, which, notwithstanding being plagued with vermin, symbolized their American dream.