# Special Sauce Reheat: Hamissi Mamba and Baobab Fare

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Podcast: [Special Sauce with Ed Levine](https://stenobird.com/podcast/special-sauce-with-ed-levine-496852)
Published: 2025-12-26T20:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_1809_7a0e34f8-ea55-46f6-8582-ffe2feef98bf&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeed.thespecialsaucepodcast.com
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## Resource

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

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