In Conversation with Naomi Munaweera

AGA: I would like to start with talking about your own travels in your childhood. You’re from Sri Lanka, and you traveled with your family to Nigeria in 1976. Then in 1984, your family left Nigeria and came to the United States. Can you speak to the reasons why you family undertook such journeys: why leave Sri Lanka? Why leave Nigeria?NM: I was born in Sri Lanka in 1973.