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Ilda Krama, 19, is what she calls “a special case” in the divided town of Mitrovica – which has been split since the end of the Kosovo war between an Albanian south and Serbian north. Krama’s background is as mixed as her hometown. “Most of my family lives in the north but we’ve lived in the south,” she explains. “I attended school in Bosnian, Rock School in Albanian – and I speak both languages,” she adds. Ilda Krama, 19, is what she calls “a special case” in the divided town of Mitrovica – which has been split since the end of the Kosovo war between an Albanian south and Serbian north. Krama’s background is as mixed as her hometown. “Most of my family lives in the north but we’ve lived in the south,” she explains. “I attended school in Bosnian, Rock School in Albanian – and I speak both languages,” she adds. Now in her second year of architecture studies in the northern half of Mitrovica, she is the lead vocal of Proximity Mine, a band established under the auspices of the Rock School – one of the few organizations to function in both the southern and northern parts of town. As a member of Kosovo’s Bosniak community, Ilda was caught between two stools since birth – collateral damage of the age-old conflict over Kosovo between Serbs and Albanians. She lived in the mainly Albanian south of Mitrovica until August 2018, but then shifted over the bridge, across the river that divides the town. “The band, and our acquaintance with each other, have opened up new perspectives for me. It was because of the band that I started studying in the north and moved there,” she says. Read more at: http://bit.ly/2ZdfMMj
