African asylum seekers find home in unlikely new American melting pots

Samba Diallo displays his daraa, a loose-fitting traditional robe worn by men in Mauritania, as he stands in the bedroom of his shared apartment in Lockland, Ohio, Friday, July 17, 2026. (AP Photo/Carolyn Kaster)

LOCKLAND, Ohio (AP) — He keeps his American clothes in the closet: jeans, T-shirts, a hard hat for his job at a meatpacking plant.

He folds his African clothes — including the blue robe he had shipped from home, the one he jokes makes him look like a king — and tucks them into a suitcase stashed in a corner.

Samba Diallo needs those less often in this new life he’s building in the United States, and space is tight in the two-bedroom apartment that he shares with four other men.

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