A song for carrying water and other stories from Somalia
Folk tales and reminiscences told in English and Somali by Somali women living in Manchester. Published: 1997
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Angry
Now listen to what nearly takes my breath away from me and lets me nearly drop dead. After living here
He only learn it from a book
Back in ’51 an English bloke come to Jamaica as a agricultural instructor. He come to St Thomas, that’s where
Mask At The Market.
In the shadow of the mosque we kissed, in the darkness of the blues we moved slowly together, at the
Self portrait as a global garment
I am hung in the earth’s wardrobe woven with the sinews of a million dying brown-skinned babies their eyes sequins
Sex
I was born and they said “I bet she’ll like coffee”. The right chromosomes you see and I cared not
The Censor
Although the standard issue pens were thick, I never quit silenced the fear that the blacked-out passages could somehow
The Curry Mile Extract (Chapter 3)
The Kohinoor was inspired by an idea Sorayah had when she was a teenager and even three years after its
Tradition by Maneer Afsar
Why does your memory haunt me; As I try to remember the times we spent together As I try to
Two ex-lovers, on the anniversary of their parting
1 So I began my morning walk a rhythm railway timetables soles arched, quickened the threshold of Mancy Park,