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Special Sauce Reheat: Hamissi Mamba and Baobab Fare

Podcast: Special Sauce with Ed Levine
Published: Dec 26, 2025
Duration seconds: 1828
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Summary

We decided to leave 2025 behind by reheating an episode from 2023 that features the remarkable Hamissi Mamba, who came to Detroit from his native Burundi searching for a better life, leaving his wife Nadia behind not knowing she was pregnant with twins. Despite not speaking English and knowing no one in the motor city Mamba has in a few short years opened a successful restaurant Baobab Fare, a food truck Waka by Baobab, and Soko, a retail business selling East African curated sauces, coffee and beverages, chocolate jewelry, and apparel. Mamba's story is especially resonant given the cruel anti-immigrant policies of the Trump administration. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices