In Ghana, Okunsola Amadou dreamed of a birth center. She built it

In Ghana, Okunsola Amadou dreamed of a birth center. She built it in Ferguson

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Jamaa Birth Village founder Okunsola Amadou became Missouri's first Black certified professional midwife in 2019. She shares her unlikely life story, from a childhood in Texas and Ferguson, to becoming a water priestess in Ghana, to returning to Ferguson just in time to experience the uprising over Michael Brown’s killing in 2014. She spoke with producer Danny Wicentowski about her decision to return to Ferguson to build her dream birth center.

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