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Somali Bantu 'Lost Tribe' Members to Relocate from Africa to Columbia, S.C.
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Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
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May 4, 2003
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By Carolyn Click, The State, Columbia, S.C. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
May 4--About 120 members of an African tribe enslaved and persecuted for more than two centuries soon will make their home in Columbia, part of one of the largest U.S. refugee resettlements in recent history.
The first wave of Somali Bantu likely will arrive sometime this summer, said the Rev. Richard Robinson, coordinator of the Lutheran Family Services Refugee Resettlement P...