“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles, the blind white of your homes against the sapphire blue of the ocean - you are… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their possessions as… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“... the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers” — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed through her.… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had passed through… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.” — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with slow smiles,… — Nadifa Mohamed Copy Share Image
