Nadifa Mohamed

“As their figures recede, it strikes Filsan as ironic that they had delayed fleeing so they could take as many of their…

— Nadifa Mohamed

“... the weapons were pens, books, chalks and blackboards, the heroes simple teachers”

— Nadifa Mohamed

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that passed…

— Nadifa Mohamed

“In her orchard the trees had been born from deaths; they marked and grew from the remains of the children that had…

— Nadifa Mohamed

“It is the kind of place where human skeletons might sink into the soil undisturbed and unmourned.”

— Nadifa Mohamed

“Mogadishu the beautiful - your white-turbaned mosques, baskets of anchovies as bright as mercury, jazz and shuffling feet, bird-boned servant girls with…

— Nadifa Mohamed